by Mark Haddon · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307278869
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«A Spot of Bother» is Mark Haddon's black comedy novel about family life, published by Vintage in paperback (368 pages, in English).
George Hall, recently retired, discovers a hip lesion he believes is cancerous just as his daughter Katie announces her wedding to the unsuitable Ray, his wife Jean is having an affair, and his son Jamie faces his own tensions. With black humour and tenderness, Haddon portrays a British family that falls apart and pulls itself back together.
It is Mark Haddon's next novel after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Originally published in 2006, it was nominated for the Costa Book Award; this edition is from 2007.
For readers of adult fiction who enjoy British humour and portraits of dysfunctional families; also works well for book clubs.
Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
