The Pier Falls - Haddon Mark

An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. \rA seaside pier collapses. \rA thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. \rOne woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. \rAnother woman is saved from drowning. \rTwo boys discover a gun in a shoebox. \rA group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. \rA man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.\rIn this first collection of stories by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon demonstrates two things: first that he is a master of the short form (several of the stories have been longlisted for prizes), second that his imagination is even darker than we had thought.\r
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