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George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment George felt lay in ignoring many things completely.' Some things in life however cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven George is settling down to a comfortable retirement building a shed in his garden reading historical novels listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie his tempestuous daughter announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover Tony to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip and quietly begins to lose his mind.The way these damaged people fall apart - and come together - as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon's disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.Read More

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    At 57 George is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then Katie his tempestuous daughter announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not pleased. Her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned. Then George discovers a lesion on his hip and quietly begins to lose his mind.

  • Blackwell

    George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything.

  • Foyles

    At 57, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not...

  • 0224080466
  • 9780224080460
  • Mark Haddon
  • 31 August 2006
  • Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 400
  • First Edition First Printing
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