Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime Book

Filled with humor and pain the curious incident of the dog in the night time verges on profundity san jose mercury news the curious incident of the dog in the night tim e brims with imagination empathy and vision plus it s a lot of fun to read myla goldberg author of bee season.

Curious incident of the dog in the nighttime book. The title the curious incident of the dog in the night time or the curious incident of the dog in the night time as it appears within the book is an appropriate one for mark haddon s ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact obsessed of detectives sherlock holmes and because its lower case letters indicate something important about its narrator. The curious incident of the dog in the night time mark haddon the novel is narrated in the first person perspective by christopher john francis boone a 15 year old boy who describes himself as a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties living in swindon wiltshire. Its title refers to an observation by the fictional detective sherlock holmes in arthur conan doyle s 1892 short story the adventure of silver blaze. Mark haddon the curious incident of the dog in the night time this book is dedicated to sos with thanks to kathryn heyman clare alexander kate shaw and dave cohen 2.