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Haddon, Mark, 1962-
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The pier falls : and other
stories
/
Mark
Haddon
.
by
Haddon
,
Mark
,
1962-
Doubleday, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION HAD
ISBN:
9780385685689 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Short
stories
. Selections
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
298 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
The Pier Falls -- The island -- Bunny -- Wodwo -- The gun -- The woodpecker and the wolf -- Breathe -- The boys who left home to learn fear -- The weir.
Summary:
"
Mark
Haddon
, author of international bestsellers The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, 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 artistocrats sets out to find adventure in a foreign land and finds the gravest dangers among themselves. These are but some of the men and women who fill this searingly imaginitive and emotionally taut collection of
short
stories
, weaving through time and space to showcase
Mark
Haddon
's incredible versatility. Yet the collection achieves a sum that is greater than its parts, proving itself a meditation not only on isolation and loneliness but also on the tenuous and unseen connections that link individuals to each other, often despite themselves. In its titular story, the narrator describes with fluid precision a catastrophe that will collectively define its victims as much as it will disperse them--and brilliantly lays bare the reader's appetite for spectactle alongside its characters'. Cut with lean prose and drawing inventively from history, myth, fairy tales and, above all, the deep well of empathy that made his three novels so compelling, The Pier Falls reveals a previously unseen side of the celebrated author."--From publisher.
Genre:
Short
stories
.
Literary fiction.
Holds:
1
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Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION HAD
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