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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Book 1) by Patrick Ness, Nick Podehl is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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...From School Library JournalGrade 9 Up—Todd Hewitt lives in a world in which all women are dead, and the thoughts of men and animals are constantly audible as Noise. Graphically represented by a set of scratchy fonts and sentence fragments that run into and over each other, Noise is an oppressive chaos of words, images, and sounds that makes human company exhausting and no thought truly private. The history of these peculiar circumstances unfolds over the course of the novel, but Ness's basic world-building is so immediately successful that readers, too, will be shocked when Todd and his dog, Manchee, first notice a silence in the Noise. Realizing that he must keep the silence secret from the town leaders, he runs away, and his terrified flight with an army in pursuit makes up the backbone of the plot. The emotional, physical, and intellectual dr

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Author
Patrick Ness, Nick Podehl
Publisher
Walker
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781406351682
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Children'S, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Rating
4.4 / 5 (6,044 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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