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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon - Book Review

by Mark Haddon

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Review by  Elspeth(408) on 09/01/2004

Winner of the Whitbread Award and the book that divided the Booker Prize panel. As far as I'm concerned it should have won the Booker.
The narrative voice is so strikingly original - a 12 yr old autistic boy who doesn't get jokes, who doesn't understand what happy or sad means and who can't read facial expressions. To take away the 'normal' emotional viewpoint that most books consist of makes you approach this from another angle. And yet it's a very emotional book. Well worth a look.




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