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A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (Hardback, 2006)
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FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER PUBLISHED BY JONATHAN CAPE, LONDON, 2006. 390 PAGES. QUIRKY NOVEL OF A QUIET LIVING MIDDLE AGED MAN FACING UNIQUE LIFE CHANGING EVENTS. BY A POPULAR AND KEENLY SOUGHT QUALITY WRITER.
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George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in igring many things completely.' Some things in life, however, cant be igred. At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical vels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, anunces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is t pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned, which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials. Unticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.Product Identifiers
PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd, Vintage Publishing
ISBN-100224080466
ISBN-139780224080460
eBay Product ID (ePID)96583983
Product Key Features
AuthorMark Haddon
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction
GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction
Dimensions
Weight736g
Height241mm
Width156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationLondon
Spine36mm
Author BiographyMark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape and David Fickling in 2003. It won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Award. His poetry collection, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea was published by Picador in 2005. Mark Haddon lives in Oxford.
Out-Of-Print Date30/08/2012
Date of Publication31/08/2006
Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
