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1784701963

The pier falls and other stories / Mark Haddon ; with illustrations by the author.

Author: Haddon, Mark, 1962-

Publication year: 2017

Language: English

Media class: Paperback

Publisher: London : Vintage, 2017.

ISBN: 9781784701963 (pbk.) : 8.99

Notes:

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2016.

An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A 30-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox, and a group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size, deep in the Amazon jungle. Here, Mark Haddon demonstrates two things: first that he is a master of the short form, and second that his imagination is even darker than we had thought.