# The Pier Falls

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- Book: [The Pier Falls](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-haddon/the-pier-falls) ([The Pier Falls.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-haddon/the-pier-falls.md))
- Authors: [Mark Haddon](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-haddon)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 9 h 30 min
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Daniel Weyman
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-467-5
- Published: 2016-05-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 9 h 30 min

## Description

'He writes with the craft of Julian Barnes or, even, Truman Capote .’ The Times A Spectator Book of the Year An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve. In 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.