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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
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Description for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Paperback. Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.
Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories, however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets - for both Christopher and the rest of his family.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099496939
SKU
V9780099496939
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-37
About Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon is a writer and artist. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. In 2012, a stage adaptation by Simon Stephens was produced by the National Theatre and went on to win 7 Olivier Awards in 2013 and the 2015 Tony Award for Best Play. In 2005 his poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published by Picador, and his play, Polar Bears, was produced by the Donmar Warehouse in 2010. The Pier Falls, a collection of short stories, was also published by Cape in 2016. To commemorate the centenary of the Hogarth Press he wrote and illustrated a short story that appeared alongside Virginia Woolf's first story for the press in Two Stories (Hogarth, 2017). His most recent novel, The Porpoise, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2019.
Reviews for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Wondrous...brilliantly inventive...dazzling. Not simply the most original novel I've read in years - it's also one of the best
The Times
Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving
Sunday Telegraph
Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read
Independent
Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant
Guardian
A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read
Time Out
A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster.
Carrie Grant, Sunday Express
Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book
Scotsman
In telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.
Daily Telegraph
Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy
Ian McEwan I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out
Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'
The Times
Exceptional by any standards. Both funny and deeply moving
Sunday Telegraph
Outstanding. Heartening as well as richly entertaining. A stunningly good read
Independent
Superbly realised. A funny as well as a sad book. Brilliant
Guardian
A remarkable book. An impressive achievement and a rewarding read
Time Out
A magical book. It's one of those books that makes you feel as though you have been on an emotional rollercoaster.
Carrie Grant, Sunday Express
Brilliantly empathetic. Believe the hype: a brilliant, heart-warming book
Scotsman
In telling a painful story in the voice of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's, Haddon broadens ordinary minds and helps to understand how they work, too.
Daily Telegraph
Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally dissociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy
Ian McEwan I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend yours out
Arthur Golden, author of 'Memoirs of a Geisha'