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Haddon, Mark Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Jonathan Cape May 1, 2003 0-224-06378-2 / 9780224063784 Hardcover Good/Good
Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog i n the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic ver sion of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mat hematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the str ange behavior of his elders and peers. Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead d og in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Chris topher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to disc over just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a socia l worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the r esult--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number-- is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.
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Haddon, Mark The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea
Picador 2005 0-330-44002-0 / 9780330440028 1st Edition Hardcover Fine/Fine
A tight clean first edition, protected in a new brodart wrapper: That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book of poetry will perhaps come as a surprise to his legions of fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will simply astonish them. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent: all the gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here - the humanity of his voices, the dark humour and the uncanny ventriloquism - but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power and surreal invention. Here are bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold new versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on "18" certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea will consolidate his reputation as our most powerful myth-weavers and spell-makers, as well as one of the most outrageous and freewheeling imaginations at work in contemporary literature.
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