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DESCRIPTION : 'He writes with the craft of Julian Barnes or, even, Truman Capote.' The TimesA Spectator Book of the YearAn expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong.A seaside pier col lapses.A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room.One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean.Another woman is saved from drowning.Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox.A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle.A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.In this first collection of stories by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon demonstrates two things: first that he is a master of the short form (several of the stories have been longlisted for prizes), second that his imagination is even darker than we had thought. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781910702185 BY (AUTHOR) Haddon, Mark PUBLISHER : Vintage Publishing PUBLICATION DATE : March 30, 2016 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Jonathan Cape Ltd LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 216 mm x 135 mm WEIGHT : 358 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more