"The book gave me that rare, greedy feeling of: this is so good I
want to read it all at once but I mustn't or it will be over too
soon. Haddon pulls off something extraordinary . . ." -- "The
Observer"
"Always surprising and often hilarious." -- "The Globe and
Mail"
"One of the most affecting things I've read in years . . . it's
brilliant." -- "The Guardian"
"Mark Haddon's new novel comes with glowing endorsements from Ian
McEwan and Oliver Sacks . . . For once, the pundits speak the
truth." -- "The Economist"
"A stark, funny and original first novel . . . [with] one of the
strangest and most convincing characters in recent fiction." --
"The New York Times Book Review"
"A brilliant autism novel has been overdue -- and this is it! The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Mark Haddon shows
great insight into the autistic mind, and he brings his young
narrator protagonist quite wonderfully to life. I found it very
moving, very plausible -- and "very" funny." -- Oliver Sacks,
author of Uncle Tungsten
"I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and
agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and
memorable. I advise you to buy two copies; you won't want to lend
yours out." -- Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
"The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision
-- plus it's a lot of fun to read." -- Myla Goldberg, author of Bee
Season
"Mark Haddon's portrayal of an emotionally disassociated mind is a
superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare
gifts of empathy." -- Ian McEwan, author of Atonement "From the
Trade Paperback edition."
" A finely crafted debut ... conveys an astonishing intensity of
emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret."
--"Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)
"" The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and
violence makes her a writer to read and watch ... has a resonance
at once witty and poignant."
"-- The New York Times Book Review
"" Crow Lake is the kind of book that keeps you reading well past
midnight; you grieve when it' s over. Then you start pressing it on
friends."
"-- The Washington Post Book World
"" A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the
ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what
it means to love, to accept, to succeed-- and to negotiate fate' s
obstacle courses."
"-- People
"" Lawson' s tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a
drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest
contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan."
"-- The Toronto Star
" "From the Hardcover edition."
"A finely crafted debut ... conveys an astonishing intensity of
emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret."
--"Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)
""The assurance with which Mary Lawson handles both reflection and
violence makes her a writer to read and watch ... has a resonance
at once witty and poignant."
"--The New York Times Book Review
""Crow Lake is the kind of book that keeps you reading well past
midnight; you grieve when it's over. Then you start pressing it on
friends."
"--The Washington Post Book World
""A touching meditation on the power of loyalty and loss, on the
ways in which we pay our debts and settle old scores, and on what
it means to love, to accept, to succeed--and to negotiate fate's
obstacle courses."
"--People
""Lawson's tight focus on the emotional and moral effects of a
drastic turn of events on a small human group has its closest
contemporary analogue in the novels of Ian McEwan."
"--The Toronto Star
" "From the Hardcover edition."
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