Winner · Otherwise Award 2008
The Knife of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness
Young-adult sci-fi novel by Patrick Ness
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...
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- science fiction
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN
- 9780763652166
- Subjects
- Fiction, Human-animal communication, Science fiction, Social problems, Telepathy, Space colonies, Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile fiction
Otherwise Award 2008
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