The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: (Broadway Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)

Mark Haddon

$14.95

Publication Date: November 25th, 2014

Publisher:

Vintage

ISBN:

9781101911617

Pages:

240

Description

THE BESTSELLING NOVEL

THE AWARD-WINNING LONDON THEATRICAL SENSATION

NOW ON BROADWAY

MORE THAN 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he hates the color yellow.

The improbable story of Christopher's quest as he investigates the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years

About the Author

MARK HADDON is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children’s books and television screenplays, as well as the novels The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, as well as a collection of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford, England.

Praise for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: (Broadway Tie-in Edition) (Vintage Contemporaries)

"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." --The Boston Globe

"Smart, honbets and wrenching." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Astonishingly captivating . . . firece and ingenious."
--The Miami Herald

"Briliant. . . .Delightful. . . Very moving, very plausibe--and very funny." --Oliver Sacks

“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." --Arthur Golden

“The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision -- plus it's a lot of fun to read.” -- Myla Goldberg