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Description
An unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer. Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 *
Awards
Winner of Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008. Short-listed for Carnegie Medal 2009 and Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2008.
Book Information
ISBN 9781406320756
Author Patrick Ness
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint Walker Books Ltd
Publisher Walker Books Ltd
Series Chaos Walking
Weight(grams) 401g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 34mm
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 *
Awards
Winner of Booktrust Teenage Prize 2008. Short-listed for Carnegie Medal 2009 and Guardian Children's Fiction Award 2008.
Book Information
ISBN 9781406320756
Author Patrick Ness
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint Walker Books Ltd
Publisher Walker Books Ltd
Series Chaos Walking
Weight(grams) 401g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 34mm
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