Authors: Mark Haddon
ISBN-13: 9781400032716, ISBN-10: 1400032717
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: Reprint
Mark Haddon is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books and television adaptations. As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He currently teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford, England.
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbors's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down.
The Curious Incident brims with imagination, empathy, and vision -- plus it's a lot of fun to read.