Mark Haddon

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

The poetry of Mark Haddon is sure to resonate every bit as evocatively with his legions of fans as has his beloved prose. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea is a captivating combination of lovelorn lyrics, titter-inducing comedy lines, surreal imagery, and wry social perception

"A fantastical novel which reworks Shakespeare's 'Pericles' into a parable for today." -- Provided by publisher.

"Author Mark Haddon returns with a collection of unsparing short stories. In the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty .45; in "The Island," a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear," a cadre of sheltered aristocrats sets out to find adventure in a foreign land and finds the gravest dangers among themselves. These are but some of the...