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A Spot of Bother
by Haddon, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0224080466
- ISBN 13
- 9780224080460
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, London, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. All my books are available and are shipped from our Australian address.. 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 way he cares for her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning gets in the way of her 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. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0224080466. ISBN/EAN: 9780224080460. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3325. . 9780224080460
Synopsis
A Spot of Bother is the second adult novel by Mark Haddon, who is best known for his prize-winning first novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Like Curious Incident, A Spot of Bother examines mental health issues from the perspective of the patient. An excerpt from A Spot of Bother (at that point titled Blood and Scissors) was published in the book New Beginnings, the proceeds from which were donated to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3325
- Title
- A Spot of Bother
- Author
- Haddon, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224080466
- ISBN 13
- 9780224080460
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Older men -- Fiction, Domestic fiction, Fiction; ISBN: 0224080466 EAN: 9780224080460 Haddon, Mark A Spot of Bother
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