Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/fiction/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0005 407360 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/fiction/engine/rss.php:0 Mark Haddon - Free Library Land Online - Fiction https://fiction.library.land/ ru Mark Haddon - Free Library Land Online - Fiction DataLife Engine The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33751-the_curious_incident_of_the_dog_in_the_night-time.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33751-the_curious_incident_of_the_dog_in_the_night-time.html The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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 detests the color yellow.
    This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years. From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:21:12 +0300 A Spot of Bother https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33749-a_spot_of_bother.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33749-a_spot_of_bother.html A Spot of Bother
A Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:21:12 +0300 The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33752-the_talking_horse_and_the_sad_girl_and_the_village_under_the_sea_poems.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33752-the_talking_horse_and_the_sad_girl_and_the_village_under_the_sea_poems.html The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems. That Mark Haddon’s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon’s prose are in strong evidence here – the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism – but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature. From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:21:12 +0300 The Pier Falls: And Other Stories https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33750-the_pier_falls_and_other_stories.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33750-the_pier_falls_and_other_stories.html The Pier Falls: And Other Stories
Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short stories In the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty .45; in "The Island," a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear," a cadre of sheltered artistocrats sets out to find adventure in a foreign land and finds the gravest dangers among themselves. These are but some of the men and women who fill this searingly imaginative and emotionally taut collection of short stories by Mark Haddon, that weaves through time and space to showcase the author's incredible versatility.
     Yet the collection achieves a sum that is greater than its parts, proving itself a meditation not only on isolation and loneliness but also on the tenuous and unseen connections that link individuals to each other, often despite themselves. In its titular story, the narrator describes with fluid precision a catastrophe that will collectively define its victims as much as it will disperse them—and brilliantly lays bare the reader's appetite for spectacle alongside its characters'. Cut with lean prose and drawing inventively from history, myth, fairy tales, and, above all, the deep well of empathy that made his three novels so compelling, The Pier Falls reveals a previously unseen side of the celebrated author.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:21:12 +0300 The Red House https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33753-the_red_house.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33753-the_red_house.html The Red House
From the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother comes a superb book about family and secrets Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks.
But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends, enemies, victims, saviours. Once again Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, has written a novel that is funny, poignant and deeply insightful about human lives.]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:21:12 +0300 The Porpoise https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/499148-the_porpoise.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/499148-the_porpoise.html The Porpoise
From the Whitbread and Los Angeles Times Prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the present
Mark Haddon's breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja, the pregnant wife of the unimaginably wealthy Philippe, is killed, but their daughter Angelique survives. Philippe's obsession with the girl's safety morphs into something sinister and grotesque as she grows into a beautiful teen. A young man named Darius, visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelique and intuits their secret — he decides to rescue her, but the attempt goes awry and he flees England by sea.
This contemporary story mirrors the ancient legend of Antiochus, whose love for the daughter of his dead wife was discovered by the adventurer Appolinus of...]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:42:19 +0200 Boom! https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33748-boom.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/33748-boom.html Boom!
Jim and his best friend Charlie bug the staff room, and overhear two teachers speak in a strange language. What does "spudvetch" mean? Why do Mr Kidd's eyes flicker with fluorescent blue light when Charlie says spudvetch to him? A high-powered adventure can end only with a Boom!]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1994 17:21:12 +0300 The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/392441-the_talking_horse_and_the_sad_girl_and_the_village_under_the_sea.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/392441-the_talking_horse_and_the_sad_girl_and_the_village_under_the_sea.html The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea
From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon's first collection of poems.

That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not.

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here -- the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism -- but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.

From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:57:19 +0200 The Pier Falls https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/392440-the_pier_falls.html https://fiction.library.land/mark-haddon/392440-the_pier_falls.html The Pier Falls
From Mark Haddon, author The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, nine dazzling stories diverse in style but united in emotional power
The tales in Mark Haddon's lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms—Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism—but they all showcase his virtuoso gifts as a stylist and the deep well of empathy that made his three bestselling novels so compelling.
The characters here are often isolated physically or estranged from their families, yet they yearn for connection. In aggregate the stories become a meditation on the essential aloneness of the human condition but also on the connections, however tenuous and imperfect, that link people to one another. In the title story, an unnamed narrator describes with cool precision a catastrophe that strikes a seaside town, both tearing lives apart and bringing them together....]]> Fri, 25 Nov 2016 11:57:18 +0200