The pier falls : and other stories / Mark Haddon.
A collection of short stories by Mark Haddon, author of the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. In the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty .45; in "The Island," a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear," a cadre of sheltered artistocrats sets out to find adventure in a foreign land and finds the gravest dangers among themselves.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385540759
- ISBN: 0385540752
- Physical Description: 298 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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Subject: | Literary > Fiction. |
Genre: | Short stories. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A collection of unsparing short stories includes "The Gun," in which a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty .45; and "The Island," in which a mythical princess is abandoned in the midst of a war. - Baker & Taylor
"Mark Haddon, author of the international bestselling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother, returns with a collection of unsparing short stories In the prize-winning story "The Gun," a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty.45; in "The Island," a mythical princess is abandoned on an island in the midst of war; in "The Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear," a cadre of sheltered artistocrats sets out to find adventure in a foreign land and finds the gravest dangers among themselves. These are but some of the men and women who fill this searingly imaginative and emotionally taut collection of short stories by Mark Haddon, that weaves through time and space to showcase the author's incredible versatility.Yet the collection achieves a sum that is greater than its parts, proving itself a meditation not only on isolation and loneliness but also on the tenuous and unseen connections that link individuals to each other, often despite themselves. In its titular story, the narrator describes with fluid precision a catastrophe that will collectively define its victims as much as it will disperse them--and brilliantly lays bare the reader's appetite for spectacle alongside its characters'. Cut with lean prose anddrawing inventively from history, myth, fairy tales, and, above all, the deep well of empathy that made his three novels so compelling, The Pier Falls reveals a previously unseen side of the celebrated author"-- - Baker & Taylor
A collection of unsparing short stories by the internationally best-selling author of A Spot of Bother includes "The Gun," in which a man's life is marked by a single afternoon and a rusty .45; and "The Island," in which a mythical princess is abandoned in the midst of a war. - Random House, Inc.
From Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, A Spot of Bother, and The Red House, nine dazzling stories diverse in style but united in emotional power
The tales in Mark Haddonâs lyrical and uncompromising new collection take many formsâVictorian adventure story, science fiction, morality tale, contemporary realismâbut they all showcase his virtuoso gifts as a stylist and the deep well of empathy that made his three bestselling novels so compelling.
   The characters here are often isolated physically or estranged from their families, yet they yearn for connection. In aggregate the stories become a meditation on the essential aloneness of the human condition but also on the connections, however tenuous and imperfect, that link people to one another. In the title story, an unnamed narrator describes with cool precision a catastrophe that strikes a seaside town, both tearing lives apart and bringing them together.Â
   In the prizewinning story âThe Gun,â a boyâs life is marked by the afternoon he encounters a semiautomatic pistol belonging to his friendâs older brother; in âThe Island,â a Greek princess is abandoned on an island by her abductor; in âThe Boys Who Left Home to Learn Fear,â a group of adventurers travel deep into the Amazonian jungle but discover the gravest danger lurking among their own number; and in âThe Woodpecker and the Wolf,â a woman wonders whether she has chosen to travel to Mars only to escape the entanglement of human relationships back here on Earth.
   Drawing inventively from history, myth, folktales, and modern life, The Pier Falls showcases Haddonâs immense gifts of invention and penetrating insight.