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  • The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea

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  • By: Mark Haddon
  • Narrated by: uncredited
  • Length: 1 hr

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

By: Mark Haddon
Narrated by: uncredited
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Summary

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village under the Sea combines bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold new versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on "18" certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages.

Consolidating Haddon's reputation as one of our most powerful myth-weavers and spell-makers, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea also confirms him as one of the most outrageous and freewheeling imaginations at work in contemporary literature.

©2005 Mark Haddon (P)2007 W F Howes Ltd.

Critic reviews

"Even if Haddon weren't the author of the phenomenally successful The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this quirky and fairy tale-like verse would be intriguing." (Library Journal)

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