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Six thousandpounds of muscle powering a hoopof butcher's knives. The only animal

Mark Haddon

Six thousandpounds of muscle powering a hoopof butcher's knives. The only animal

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If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

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About Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon (born 26 September 1962) is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.