Patrick Ness is the author of two critically acclaimed works of fiction, The Crash of Hennington and Topics About Which I Know Nothing. An award-winning novelist, he has also written for Radio 4, the Sunday Telegraph and is currently a literary critic for the Guardian. This is his first book for young adults.
The story, narrated sparkily and saltily by its hero Todd, unpeels
Prentisstown's dark secrets like the layers of a very rotten onion.
Ness, an acclaimed author of adult fiction as well, moves things
along at a breakneck pace, and Todd's world is filled with
memorable characters, foul villains.
*Financial Times*
An impossibly good novel. It is at once endearing yet
unsentimental; compassionate yet damning; exhaustingly exhilarating
and yet tempered by a staid and considered emotivity. Written in
the first-person present tense in an unapologetically impudent
manner, this novel captures exceptionally the brash bravado and the
underlying insecurities that actively teem inside the minds and
explode in the actions of boys on their path to manhood.
*www.inthenews.co.uk*
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL excellent debuts in recent months and
perhaps the most impressive is Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never
Letting Go. It's the story of Todd, the last boy in a community of
men. In Prentisstown, the Noise virus has left men with the ability
to hear each other's thoughts, those of animals too. The idea may
send shivers up the spine, but how different is it to the constant
intrusion of e-mails, texts, advertisements and CCTV we already
suffer? When Todd finds a lone girl in the marshes he realises they
have to escape, which isn't easy when your hunters can hear your
every thought. Written in Todd's characteristic vernacular and
brimming over with ideas about adolescence, faith and free will,
this is intelligent, immersive storytelling.
*The Scotsman*
A book like no other. It's one of the most gripping, fantastical
reads around.
*Sunday Express*
Darkly imagined and brilliantly created, the painful dystopian
setting of a world full of noise in which all thoughts can be heard
as if spoken is the background to this tense coming of age
story.
*The Guardian*
An amazing book that should be seen as a classic
*Books for Keeps*
An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by
an award-winning writer.
*Southern Reporter*
The first book in an electrifying and multi-award winning
trilogy
*`S’ (Supplement to Sunday Express)*
One of the boldest, bravest and most original novels of the last 10
years . . . it will take your breath away
*Sunday Mail Glasgow, Book of the Week*
I don’t think I could speak highly enough of this book; it was just
pure brilliance
*Growing Wings*
This harrowing and immersive book completely reimagines the
possibilities of dystopian young adult fiction
*Rolling Stone*
The story, narrated sparkily and saltily by its hero Todd, unpeels
Prentisstown's dark secrets like the layers of a very rotten onion.
Ness, an acclaimed author of adult fiction as well, moves things
along at a breakneck pace, and Todd's world is filled with
memorable characters, foul villains. * Financial Times *
An impossibly good novel. It is at once endearing yet
unsentimental; compassionate yet damning; exhaustingly exhilarating
and yet tempered by a staid and considered emotivity. Written in
the first-person present tense in an unapologetically impudent
manner, this novel captures exceptionally the brash bravado and the
underlying insecurities that actively teem inside the minds and
explode in the actions of boys on their path to manhood. *
www.inthenews.co.uk *
THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL excellent debuts in recent months and
perhaps the most impressive is Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never
Letting Go. It's the story of Todd, the last boy in a community of
men. In Prentisstown, the Noise virus has left men with the ability
to hear each other's thoughts, those of animals too. The idea may
send shivers up the spine, but how different is it to the constant
intrusion of e-mails, texts, advertisements and CCTV we already
suffer? When Todd finds a lone girl in the marshes he realises they
have to escape, which isn't easy when your hunters can hear your
every thought. Written in Todd's characteristic vernacular and
brimming over with ideas about adolescence, faith and free will,
this is intelligent, immersive storytelling. -- Keith Gray * The
Scotsman *
A book like no other. It's one of the most gripping, fantastical
reads around. -- Camilla de la Bedoyere * Sunday Express *
Darkly imagined and brilliantly created, the painful dystopian
setting of a world full of noise in which all thoughts can be heard
as if spoken is the background to this tense coming of age story. *
The Guardian *
An amazing book that should be seen as a classic * Books for Keeps
*
An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by
an award-winning writer. * Southern Reporter *
The first book in an electrifying and multi-award winning trilogy *
`S' (Supplement to Sunday Express) *
One of the boldest, bravest and most original novels of the last 10
years . . . it will take your breath away * Sunday Mail Glasgow,
Book of the Week *
I don't think I could speak highly enough of this book; it was just
pure brilliance * Growing Wings *
This harrowing and immersive book completely reimagines the
possibilities of dystopian young adult fiction * Rolling Stone *
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