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

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Awards

2003 Whitbread Award for Best Novel
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Foreign rights have been sold to the UK, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Japan, Greece, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Brazil.

Film rights have been bought by Hey Day (the makers of Harry Potter) together with Brad Grey (producer of The Sopranos) and Brad Pitt in their first acquisition for Warner Bros.

Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. At fifteen, Christopher’s carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbour’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 favourite 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 Christopher tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, the narrative draws readers 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 emotions. The effect is dazzling, making for one of the freshest debut in years: a comedy, a tearjerker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

Review:

"Superb....Bits of wisdom fairly leap off the page." Newsday

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"Mark Haddon's stark, funny and original first novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is presented as a detective story. But it eschews most of the furnishings of high-literary enterprise as well as the conventions of genre, disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect." Jay McInerney, The New York Times Book Review

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"Though Christopher insists, 'This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them,' the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. The result is an eye-opening work in a unique and compelling literary voice." Publishers Weekly

Review:

"[S]tark, funny and original....[I]t eschews most of the furnishings of high-literary enterprise as well as the conventions of genre, disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect." Jay McInerney, The New York Times Book Review

Review:

"Narrated by the unusual and endearing Christopher, who alternates between analyzing mathematical equations and astronomy and contemplating the deaths of Wellington and his mother, the novel is both fresh and inventive." Booklist

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"[A] bittersweet tale....A kind of Holden Caulfield who speaks bravely and winningly from inside the sorrows of autism: wonderful, simple, easy, moving, and likely to be a smash." Kirkus Reviews

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"This original and affecting novel is a triumph of empathy; whether describing Christopher's favorite dream...or his vision of the universe collapsing in a thunder or stars, the author makes his hero's severely limited world a thrilling place to be." The New Yorker

Review:

"A stroke of genius, as the advantages of having a naive, literal-minded boy in the driving seat are manifold... we do learn what it might feel like to have Asperger's Syndrome." David Newnham, T.E.S.

Review:

"For Haddon to have created such a superbly realized autistic world-view is, in itself, remarkable. Brilliantly inventive, full of dazzling set-pieces, unbearbly sad, yet also skilfully dodging any encounters with sentimentality, this isn't simply the most original novel I've read in years...it's also one of the best." The Times (London)

Review:

"The book gave me that rare, greedy feeling of: this is so good I want to read it all at once but I mustn't or it will be over too soon" Kate Kellaway, The Observer

Review:

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is brilliant. A dazzlingly original mystery story and a moving heart-breaker of a novel. In a word, unputdownable. A cross-over book of equal appeal to teenage and adult readers, it is also an acute portrayal of the autistic mind." Chris Brice, The Advertiser (Australia)

Synopsis:

Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions.
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About the Author

Mark Haddon is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books and television screenplays. As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford, England.
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jonathan p., July 3, 2007 (view all comments by jonathan p.)
This book is truely essential to read. The sooner the better. It keeps you interested, allows you to think different;y, and can change the readers perspective on life.. Highly Recommended
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ambertremb, May 7, 2006 (view all comments by ambertremb)
An adorable, ironic novel about a loveable boy and his mistaken father and lost mother, in the form of mock murder mystery.
Full of humor and endearing personality. Fantastic!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780385509459
Author:
Haddon, Mark
Publisher:
Random House
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
Subject:
England
Subject:
Detective and mystery stories
Subject:
Autism
Subject:
Savants (savant syndrome)
Subject:
Savants
Copyright:
2003
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
107-516
Publication Date:
June 17, 2003
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Secondary (senior high)
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
226 p.
Dimensions:
8.48x5.82x.84 in. .82 lbs.
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