Family by Mark Haddon - ISBN: 9781784874063
Paperback
Fraught reunions and quarreling clans: the stormy crucible of self.

Family

Vintage Minis

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    4 April 2019

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Summary

‘Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark and everyone sailing under a different sky’

Where do you go if you can’t feel at home in your own family? When the people who made you can’t fathom who you become? In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, in doing so charts a stormy course into the crucible of the self.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784874063
ISBN-10:178487406X
Author:Mark Haddon
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:4 April 2019
Weight:134g
Dimensions:178mm x 112mm x 14mm
Series:Vintage Minis
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About The Author

Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon is a writer and artist. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) won seventeen literary prizes, was translated into 36 languages, and went on to become an award-winning stage adaptation by Simon Stephens. His most recent works of fiction include a novel, The Porpoise (2019), and a collection of fables and stories, Dogs and Monsters (2024).

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