The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems

✍ Scribed by Haddon, Mark

• Book ID: 108646232
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 110 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307498199

✦ Synopsis

From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon's first collection of poems.

That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a book of poetry may surprise his many fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will not.

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here -- the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism -- but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.

From the Trade Paperback edition.