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A Spot of Bother
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| Added by: stovokor | Karma: 1758.60 | Fiction literature | 15 January 2009 |
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 A Spot of Bother is the second adult novel by the author Mark Haddon, who is best known as the writer of his prize-winning first novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. This is Haddon's second novel to deal with mental health issues from the point-of-view of the patient, the first being The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. An early excerpt of A Spot of Bother (at that point titled Blood and Scissors) was published in the book New Beginnings, the proceeds from which benefited the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. |
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| Tags: novel, Bother, Incident, Nighttime, first |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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| Added by: eom | Karma: 0.10 | Audiobooks | 31 May 2007 |
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 The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator.
Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get.
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| Tags: because, Curious, Christopher, Nighttime, Incident, Night-time |
