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Never Let Me Go Summary & Study Guide Description
Never Let Me Go Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Never Let Me Go Plot Summary
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Never Let Me Go is a science fiction novel about three friends who grow up together in England in the late 20th Century. Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attend an exclusive boarding school called Hailsham that has an unusual emphasis on encouraging physical fitness and artistic expression. It is gradually revealed to the reader that the students of Hailsham are actually clones being raised to donate their organs. After completing their schooling, the three friends are sent to live in communal housing with other clones before entering the final stage of their lives when they will become "carers" for other clones who are beginning the process of donating their organs, and then finally begin to donate their own organs until they "complete."
Told from the viewpoint of Kathy, who becomes a carer for her two friends, the manipulative Ruth and the hapless Tommy, the novel is a narrative of how the...
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