The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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Up-And-Comers Meese Share Favorite Book...series' author, Stephenie Meyer -- Nate recalls one recent book that stood out: Mark Haddon's critically acclaimed and award winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a heart-warming tale of an autistic teenage boy in... In this article: Mark Haddon, Dog, NPR, Kurt Vonnegut, Denver, Autism, Stephenie Meyer, and Stephen Hawking |
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Baltimore Sun | November 06, 2009
Jesse Eisenberg in 'The Social Network'
...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...
In this article: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Zuckerberg, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Facebook, Andrew Garfield, Fight Club, and Mark Haddon
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
...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...
In this article: Dog, Wellington, Autism, and Swindon
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories | October 29, 2009
The Best of Brit Lit
...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...
In this article: Peter Stothard, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Iraq War, Times Literary Supplement, The Times of London, Downing Street, Europe, and Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
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Times Online | October 28, 2009
Oxford English
...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...
In this article: Hermione Lee, Oxford English, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suicide, Richard Carew, and Carroll John Daly
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True/Slant | October 15, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are: Just Regular
...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...
In this article: Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze, Warner Bros, Paul Dano, Adaptation, Dave Eggers, Maurice Sendak, Goat, and Tony Soprano
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Independent.co.uk - Commentators | October 03, 2009
Jenny Colgan: I absolutely love books. That's why I hate the Booker
...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...
In this article: Man Booker Prize, Lee Child, Narnia, Richard Feynman, and Agatha Christie
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Telegraph.co.uk - Books | September 17, 2009
Boom by Mark Haddon: review
...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...
In this article: Mark Haddon, Dog, Asperger's syndrome, Anne Fine, Frances Hardinge, Meg Rosoff, and A Spot of Bother
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Blogcritics | August 27, 2009
The New Canon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
...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...
In this article: Mark Haddon, Ted Gioia, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Culprit, Literature, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Cocaine, and Nero Wolfe
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Centre Daily Times | August 27, 2009
It's fun to obsess about a compulsive thief
...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...
In this article: Oliver Sacks, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block, Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn, and Mark Haddon
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Independent.ie | August 05, 2009
Danii hails X Factor contestant who couldn't leave his home for seven years
...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...
In this article: Simon Cowell, X Factor, Asperger's syndrome, Susan Boyle, Dannii Minogue, Autism, and You Raise Me Up
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a 2003 novel by 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 1894 short story "Silver Blaze".
The story is written in the first-person perspective of Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old autistic boy living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher's condition within the autism spectrum is not stated explicitly within the novel, the summary on the book's inside cover describes it as Asperger syndrome.
- Name:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Country of Origin:
- United Kingdom
- Genre:
- Mystery novel
- Written By:
- Mark Haddon
- Published By:
- Jonathan Cape
- Length:
- 226
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback & Paperback)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 2003
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