Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

That Mark Haddon''s first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was a poetry collection perhaps came as a surprise to his legions of fans; that it is a collection of such virtuosity and range did not. The gifts so admired in Haddon''s prose are in strong evidence here too - the humanity of his voices, the dark humour and the uncanny ventriloquism - but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power and surreal invention, and The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea combines bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold new versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on "18" certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages. Consolidating Haddon''s reputation as our most powerful myth-weavers and spell-makers, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea also confirms him as one of the most outrageous and freewheeling imaginations at work in contemporary literature.>

Product details

• Authors: Mark Haddon
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2013
• EAN: 9781447241621
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-4162-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets