A Spot of Bother - Rilegato

Haddon, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0385520514 ISBN 13: 9780385520515

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2006

Riassunto

The descent into madness of sixty-one-year-old George Hall goes largely unnoticed due to his family members' preoccupations with their own individual relationship crises. 250,000 first printing.

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Praise for THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

“Moving . . . Think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sacks’s real-life stories.” —Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

“Both clever and observant, and the effect is vastly affecting.” —Washington Post Book World
 
“This original and affecting novel is a triumph of empathy.” —The New Yorker

“Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent.” —Boston Globe

“Disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect . . . as suspenseful and harrowing as anything in Conan Doyle.” —Jay McInerney, New York Times Book Review

“Funny, sad and totally convincing.” —Time

“More so than precursors like The Sound and the Fury and Flowers for Algernon, The Curious Incident is a radical experiment in empathy. ” —Village Voice

“One of the strangest and most convincing characters in recent fiction.” —Slate

L'autore:

mark haddon is the author of the international bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Whitbread Book of the Year award. In addition to the recently published The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, a collection of poetry, Haddon has also written and illustrated numerous children’s books and received several awards for his television screenplays.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0385520514
• ISBN 13: 9780385520515
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 354