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 power
The 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 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.
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