The pier falls (Heftet)
Forfatter:
| Forfatter: | Mark Haddon |
| Innbinding: | Heftet |
| Utgivelsesår: | 2016 |
| Antall sider: | 336 |
| Forlag: | Vigmostad & Bjørke AS (VB Import) |
| Språk: | Engelsk |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781910702185 |
Omtale The pier falls
"He writes with the craft of Julian Barnes or, even, Truman Capote." (The Times). This is a Spectator Book of the Year. An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. 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.