The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems

By Mark Haddon

Book Overview

From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time comes Mark Haddon's first collection of poems.

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent. All the gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here--the humanity, the dark humour, and the uncanny ventriloquism--but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power, and surreal invention. This book will consolidate his reputation as one of the most imaginative writers in contemporary literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307275698
• ISBN13: 9780307275691
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

As witty and charming as his novel

I bought this book because I loved his novel and because I love poetry. I was not dissappointed. The book is lovely to look at for starters. The poems made me smile and think, rather than wonder what the poet meant.