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A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon's unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind. As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
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"A Spot of Bother snaps, crackles and pops with humor and pathos. . . . Sparklingly written. . . . Haddon deftly pulls this off with what we can now hail as his trademark tenderness." --Los Angeles Times
"Totally brilliant. . . . Wondrously articulate.... A Spot of Bother serves as a fine example of why novels exist." --The New York Times Book Review
"Superbly entertaining." --The Washington Post Book World
"[Haddon's] craftsmanship is dazzling, his sense of character profound, his kindness toward his creations that of a consummate caregiver. Humorous, occasionally heart-rending and always enthralling, A Spot of Bother is a wonder and a joy." --Chicago Sun-Times
The most keenly awaited paperback of the year - the brilliant new novel by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0307278867
- ISBN 13 9780307278869
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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