The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

...transcribed by standard movie plots." There's nothing random about the book that Eisenberg is holding in his hands. It's Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time," and when asked about it, the actor exclaims, "Oh, my...

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...British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Its title is a quotation of a remark made by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's...

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...what is fresh in the new edition edited by Dinah Birch? Perusing the Hs, Henry Hitchens finds for the first time Mark Haddon, whose novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is "a remarkable tour de force"; hagiography, a term...

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...influential". Who and what is fresh in Dinah Birch's edition? Perusing the Hs, one finds for the first time Mark Haddon, whose novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is "a remarkable tour de force"; hagiography, a term...

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...sub-genre of literary fiction about children for adults - serious attempts to decode the inner character of children like Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, and Tony Earley's...

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...exercise in world-building, but with supernatural elements, didn't even make the shortlist in 2004; nor did the "children's book" The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It did win the Costas. But the Costas (as the Whitbread...

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...Haddon's new novel, Boom!, a rewrite of one of his old books You may remember Mark Haddon from a rather successful novel he wrote called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. It was that rare thing: a crossover book that...

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...whether our investigator solves crimes or merely writes about them. Then we come to Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in which a 15-year-old autistic boy tries to find the culprit in a local murder. Christopher...

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...crime novel, like Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series. Fair enough. But I'd place it with, and recommend it to, fans of Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," Elizabeth Moon's "The Speed of Dark," Jonathan...

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...with narrow topics and become fixated with patterns and orders of the things around them, as is the case in Mark Haddon's best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which did much to raise the profile of the...

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