Name: The Pier Falls
SKU: 50240350
Price: 516.00 TWD
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Author: Mark Haddon
ISBN: 9781784701963

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mark Haddon

Publisher

Vintage UK

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781784701963

The Pier Falls

Mark Haddon (Author) · Vintage UK · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Pier Falls "

From Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, nine dazzling stories diverse in style but united in emotional powerThe tales in Mark Haddon’s lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many forms—Victorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realism—but they all showcase his virtuoso gifts as a stylist and the deep well of empathy that made his three bestselling novels so compelling. The characters here are often isolated physically or estranged from their families, yet they yearn for connection. In aggregate the stories become a meditation on the essential aloneness of the human condition but also on the connections, however tenuous and imperfect, that link people to one another. In the title story, an unnamed narrator describes with cool precision a catastrophe that strikes a seaside town, both tearing lives apart and bringing them together. In the prizewinning story “The Gun,” a boy’s life is marked by the afternoon he encounters a semiautomatic pistol belonging to his friend’s older brother; in “The Island,” a Greek princess is abandoned on an island by her abductor; in “The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear,” a group of adventurers travel deep into the Amazonian jungle but discover the gravest danger lurking among their own number; and in “The Woodpecker and the Wolf,” a woman wonders whether she has chosen to travel to Mars only to escape the entanglement of human relationships back here on Earth. Drawing inventively from history, myth, folktales, and modern life, The Pier Falls showcases Haddon’s immense gifts of invention and penetrating insight. --Este texto se refiere a la edición Hardcover.

Mark Haddon

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Mark Haddon (Northampton, United Kingdom, September 28, 1962) is a British writer and screenwriter, famous for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which explores the mind of a teenager with autism. Haddon has also written A Spot of Bother and The Pier Falls. His work has been awarded prizes such as the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. In addition to novels, Haddon has worked on children’s literature and television scripts, standing out for his sensitivity and originality in addressing complex issues from a unique perspective.

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