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George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ease with the emotional demands of fatherhood, or manly bonhomie. He does not understand the modern obsession with talking about everything.
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- Author
- Mark Haddon
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 390
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Chatto Bodley Head & Cape, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- Dutch, French, heb, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780099561040
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Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Tim*e (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
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