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008			151030t20162016nyu 000 1 eng
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020			_a9780385540759 _q(hardcover)
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035			_a(OCoLC)918969716
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092			_aHaddon, _bMark
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aHaddon, Mark, _d1962- _eauthor. _9209085
240	1	0	_aShort stories. _kSelections
245	1	4	_aThe pier falls : _band other stories / _cMark Haddon.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a298 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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 aristocrats 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 and drawing 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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_tThe Pier Falls -- _tThe island -- _tBunny -- _tWodwo -- _tThe gun -- _tThe woodpecker and the wolf -- _tBreathe -- _tThe boys who left home to learn fear -- _tThe weir.
650		0	_aShort stories, English. _926274
655		7	_aShort stories. _2lcgft _91945
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