Haddon told the Guardian by email that “one irony” about the situation was that Curious Incident is “not just a novel that contains swearing but a novel about swearing”. Seeing ****s … Luke Treadaway as Christopher in the National Theatre production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Photograph: Tristram Kenton But according to local paper the Tallahassee Democrat, after the school’s head received “concerns over the delivery of the text” in emails and telephone calls from parents, the assignment was cancelled in order to, in the head’s words, “give the opportunity for the parents to parent”. It had been given as a summer reading assignment to students at Lincoln High School in Tallahassee, Florida. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year which is now also a prize-winning play, The Curious Incident is narrated by a 15-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, as he embarks on an investigation into the death of his neighbour’s dog. Author Mark Haddon has said that he is “puzzled and fascinated by the way in which some readers remain untroubled by the content of a novel but deeply offended by the language in which it is described”, after his award-winning book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was pulled from a summer reading list at a Florida school over parental concerns about swearing.
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