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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

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• Written by: Mark Haddon
• Publisher: Vintage
• Published: 01 April 2004
• ISBN: 0099450259 | ISBN-13: 9780099450252
• RRP: £7.99 | Binding: Paperback (224 pages)
• The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator. Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get. When the dog... Read More