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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780307278869
ISBN number: 0307278867
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: August 14, 2007
Publishing house: Vintage
Release Date: August 14, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 27122
Studio: Vintage
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A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Spot of Bother is Mark Haddon’s unforgettable follow-up to the internationally beloved bestseller The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
At sixty-one, George Hall is settling down to a comfortable retirement. When his tempestuous daughter, Katie, announces that she is getting married to the deeply inappropriate Ray, the Hall family is thrown into a tizzy. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.
As parents and children fall apart and come together, Haddon paints a disturbing yet amusing portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.
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I read "A Spot of Bother" ostensibly for the purpose of airport entertainment and had not read Haddon's debut work "A Curious Incident" The good in this book as that the narrative flows effortlessly, and the voices of each character, especially around the wedding near the end is creative and enjoyable. Haddon has genuine sympathy for his characters and their various foibles. Detracting from it is that through the middle of the book George's voice is monotonous and depressing and the portrayal of Jamie the gay son is self obsessed with more gay action than I had bargained for. (Having enjoyed Colm Toibin's The Story of Night" I felt that the Jamie character was a bit too PC.)
That said the narrative style really is what carries the reader over the finish line.
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This is one of the funniest books I have read in a long while. Mark Hadden has a great touch in pointing out the bizarre in every day life, in an appropriately understated way. Other reviewer have covered the stories and characters, so what I would add is that I found this book much funnier (laugh out lout funny) than some of the other reviewers.
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This book just had me. I have sooo much in common with the daughter. It's got a lot going on with the various family members but you become attached to each one of them and I always felt really concerned about how they were doing and where they were. Mark Haddon is a fabulous writer. I immediately gave it to my father when I was done with it and he loved it as well. I will be looking for more of his work.
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The book, A Spot of Bother, by Mark Haddon, focuses on a novice retiree, George, the 61-years-old tyro who was struggling to shape up his new life. The author, a young gifted bloke, 46 years old to be exact, thinks through his characters' mind-sets like a surgeon incisively and produces a delightful novel. Mr. Bloom, presenting an abbreviated analysis of the book, discussed the relevance of all those ravishing characters: Jean, Katie, Jamie, Tony, and the funny pig-shaped notepad on the phone table; and, of course distraught George: here he ponders the role of Christianity in his life:
He looks around at the stained-glass lambs and the scale model of the crucified Christ and thought how ridiculous it all was, this desert religion transported wholesale to the English shires. Bank managers and P.E. teachers listening to stories about zithers and smiting and barley bread as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The book, humorous and entertainiing, was a big sucess in our book club.
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I was annoyed reading this book about the most unlikeable people, except for the prospective groom. I was totally unsympathetic to this shallow and totally unlovable family. Not funny, just pathetic. I liked The Curious Incident....and was very disappointed with this book.
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