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Vintage paperback edition of Haddon's follow- up to "The Curious Incident..." which was omitted from the prize shortlists, but got great reviews. It is the story of retired George, who on discovering a lesion on his hip, quietly begins to lose his mind, a worry for his family who nonetheless have their own preoccupations and concerns. How these damaged people fall apart, and come together as a family is the subject of this disturbing but wryly written novel … mehrwhich is sure to be a huge paperback bestseller this summer. 'A painful, funny, humane, novel: beautifully written, addictively readable and so confident' "The Times"
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Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. 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. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea was published by Picador in 2005. Mark Haddon lives in Oxford.
in: Englisch
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ISBN: 978-0-09-950692-8
H3.7 cm x B13.2 cm x D19.8 cm 355 g weniger