Kazuo Ishiguro
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Everyman's library volume 349
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
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A compelling portrait of the perfect English butler, who, at the end of his career in postwar England, reviews his life and secretly questions the "greatness" of the nobleman he served.
From the Nobel Prizewinning author, here is an elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novelwinner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller, and the basis for an award-winning filmwith full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology,...
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...