The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Read Online By Mark Haddon
| Title | : | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| Author | : | Mark Haddon |
| Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Page | : | 226 pages |
| ISBN | : | 1400077834 |
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.Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen year old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishment 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.Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen year old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket Then one day, a neighbor s dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite logical detective, Sherlock Holmes What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing are a mind that perceives the world entirely literally
about Author
Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night t Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Aspergers syndrome Haddon s knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences His second adult novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children s BBC sitcom He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs s story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004 He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery He describes himself as a hard line atheist In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said I am atheist in a very religious mould His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid.Mark Haddon lives in Oxford with his wife Dr Sos Eltis, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and their two young sons 
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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 b
226 pagesMark Haddon
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