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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Haddon, Mark
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385509456
- ISBN 13
- 9780385509459
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2003. Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 226 pages From dust jacket: "Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictably shelter him from the messy wider world. Then, at 15, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and his is initially blamed for the killing." Minor foxing to inside front jacket fold, foxing to top of book. . First. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Wondrous-Brilliantly inventive, full of dazzling set pieces- Not simply the most original novel I've read in years-it's also one of the best' The TimesThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
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- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007115
- Title
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Author
- Haddon, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0385509456
- ISBN 13
- 9780385509459
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- First Edition; 1st Edition; Novel; Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Novels; First Editions;
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