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.
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"This was actually glorious. I knew Haddon's name was familiar but I couldn't figure it out until I'd read the inside. He has such style with his words. It's always such a nice blend of old classics and new ways of poetry. I loved it. " — Sarah (5 out of 5 stars)
"This was actually glorious. I knew Haddon's name was familiar but I couldn't figure it out until I'd read the inside. He has such style with his words. It's always such a nice blend of old classics and new ways of poetry. I loved it. "
" Coolest cover ever with a moveable paper wheel...unfortunately, I only liked a couple of the poems contained within. "
" the title is way cooler than the poems... "
" I love this book! The poems are so vivid and imaginative and so varied - from the surreal to the quietly insightful, from the funny to the moving. I've read the book twice and may read it again. "
" i think i like mark haddon the novelist more than mark haddon the poet, but maybe that's just me. the book is entertaining, though. "
" I bought his book of poetry because I loved the Curious Incident so much. This is so-so. Didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. "
" I picked it up from a clearance table because it has a cool cover. Now I understand why it was on a clearance table. "
" this book was ok. poetry was kind of silly and light nothing really that exciting. they remind me of blue glass. pretty to look at but kind of see through. "
" I couldn't follow the logic of the book's organization. And most of the poems fell flat for me. Haddon is definitely a better novelist! "
" A very emotionally twisting book... "
" Don't take it personally, Mark Haddon. I just don't really care for poetry. "
" Great poetry and the actual structure of the book is really cool. There is a paper wheel in the cover and you can turn it to see the highlighted poems and a little picture to go with it. "
" I love love love the cover. The poetry... well... It seems like, for such a short book, the collection should have been more cohesive. It was a bit scattered. "
" Published only because of his success with Curious Incident, not because of its own merits, which are few. "
Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator, and screenwriter. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, was published in 2003 and won seventeen literary prizes, including the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, and is an international bestseller. Mark Haddon lives in Oxford, England.
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