Buy this book on-line HADDON,MARK**: : THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME.**UK.OXFORD.DAVID FICKLING BOOKS,2003. ISBN 0385605870.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing
to edges - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip and the two bottom corners, minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.
Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - an unread copy - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Bright, unblemished, publisher's original red cloth bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate grey eps.8vo,1-271pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,a 4pp appendix and 8pp blanks to rear.
This is the Children's edition issued in the white dust-jacket,showing the five red cars and the Dog of the title.The dust-jacket has a child-oriented design, otherwise,the contents - both text and layout
- are exactly the same as in the "adult" version published by Cape, with the brown dustjacket.Published simultaneously with the adult edn.
The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone.Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism.He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings.He loves lists, patterns and the
truth.He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched.He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when
he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.Mark Haddon's first, debut novel, chosen as a Booker finalist,but winner of the Guardian Children`s Fiction Prize, overall winner of the Whitbread Book Awards 2003,and winner of the Whitbread Book Awards 2003,for the Novel category.
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