The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

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. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.

Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents' marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher's mind.

And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon's choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

Mark Haddon is an award-winning author and artist of children's books and television screenplays. He lives in Oxford, England, and teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation.

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ISBN 13	9780385512107
ISBN 10	0385512104
Title	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Author	Mark Haddon
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	2003-07-31
Number of pages	240
Prizes	Winner of Costa Book Awards (Novel) 2003, Winner of Costa Book Awards (Book of the Year) 2003, Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (First Fiction) 2003, Winner of Garden State Teen Book Award (Fiction (Grades 9-12)) 2006, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2005, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction) 2004, Short-listed for Carnegie Medal (Children's) 2003, Short-listed for Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers 2005, Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2005, Short-listed for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2008
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