Mark Haddon is the author of the bestselling novels The Red House and A Spot of Bother. His novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and is the basis for the Tony Award-winning play. He is the author of a collection of poetry, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea, has written and illustrated numerous children's books, and has won awards for both his radio dramas and his television screenplays. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and lives in Oxford, England.
"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." --The Boston
Globe "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, The New York
Times
This is an amazing novel. An amazing book. --The Dallas Morning
News "A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer
with rare gifts of empathy." --Ian McEwan, author of
Atonement "Brilliant. . . . Delightful. . . . Very moving,
very plausible--and very funny." --Oliver Sacks "Superb. . . . Bits
of wisdom fairly leap off the page." --Newsday "Disorienting and
reorienting the reader to devastating effect. . . . As suspenseful
and harrowing as anything in Conan Doyle." --Jay McInerney, The New
York Times Book Review "Extraordinarily moving, often blackly
funny. . . . It is hard to think of anyone who would not be moved
and delighted by this book." --Financial Times, London Both clever
and observant. --The Washington Post "Full of whimsical surprises
and tender humor." --People "[Haddon] illuminates a core of
suffering through the narrowly focused insights of a boy who hasn't
the words to describe emotional pain." --New York Daily News
Outstanding. . . . A stunningly good read. --The Independent
"Engrossing . . . flawlessly imagined and deeply affecting."
--Time Out New York "A remarkable book from a writer with very
special talent." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram "The Curious
Incident is the rare book that repays reading twice in quick
succession." --Detroit Free Press Heart-in-the-mouth stuff,
terrifying and moving. Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining
a new kind of hero. --The Daily Telegraph "This original and
affecting novel is a triumph of empathy." --The New Yorker
"Haddon's book illuminates the way one mind works so precisely, so
humanely, that it reads like both an acutely observed case study
and an artful exploration of a different 'mystery' the thoughts and
feeling we share even with those very different from us."
--Entertainment Weekly "Mark Haddon's portrayal of an
emotionally disassociated mind is a superb achievement. He is a
wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy." --Ian
McEwan, author of Atonement A murder mystery, a road atlas, a
postmodern canvas of modern sensory overload, a coming-of-age
journal and lastly a really affecting look at the grainy
inconsistency of parental and romantic love and its failures. . . .
In this striking first novel, Mark Haddon is both clever and
observant, and the effect is vastly affecting. --The Washington
Post
"Haddon's gentle humor reminds us that facts don't add up to a
life, that we understand ourselves only through metaphor."
--Chicago Tribune
"Beautifully written. . . . Heart-in-the-mouth stuff, terrifying
and moving. Haddon is to be congratulated for imagining a new kind
of hero, for the humbling instruction this warm and often funny
novel offers and for showing that the best lives are lived where
difference is cherished." --The Daily Telegraph "A detective
story with a difference. . . . [Haddon] has given his unlikely hero
a convincing voice-and the detective novel an interesting twist."
--The Economist
Think Huck Finn, The Catcher in the Rye, or the early
chapters of David Copperfield. --Houston
Chronicle
"A tale full of cheeky surprises and tender humor. . . . A touching
evolution." --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"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. --The Village Voice
"One of the strangest and most convincing characters in recent
fiction." --Slate
"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
"At once funny and achingly sad, this thought-provoking debut may
leave us wondering if our worn coping skills are really any better
than Christopher's." --The News and Observer
"Filled with humor and pain, [The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time] verges on profundity." --San Jose Mercury
News "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
brims with imagination, empathy, and vision-plus it's a lot of fun
to read." --Myla Goldberg, author of Bee Season
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