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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Book, Ian, McEwan with the genre: Literature & Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Book, Ian, McEwan?
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conversations.value: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play): The play involves a significant reworking of the source material.\nRather than present the story in the first-person narrative as the original novel did, the play is presented as a reading of Boone's own writing, read aloud in segments by his teacher.\nThe result is that the play is presented as a play-within-a-play.\nThe play, set in Swindon and London is about a 15-year-old amateur detective named Christopher John Francis Boone who is a mathematical genius.\nHe appears to have an unspecified autism spectrum disorder that is variously described as either autism or Asperger's Syndrome, although the condition is never explicitly stated in the play.\nThe titular curious incident is the mystery surrounding the death of a neighbour's dog, Wellington, found speared by a garden fork.\nWhile searching for the murderer of the dog, he encounters resistance from many neighbours, but mostly from his father, Ed Boone.\nChristopher argues to himself that many rules are made to be broken, so he continues to search for an answer; he compares himself to Sherlock Holmes.\nWhen he discovers that his father killed the dog, Christopher fears for his own life and travels to London to find and live with his mother, who his father, after being left by her, had told Christopher she had died from a heart attack.\nHe encounters many problems during the journey, but is welcomed by his mother.\nHowever, the road to his ambitions leads him back to Swindon, where he wants to pass important mathematics tests.\nEverything seems to be an obstacle, but Christopher is eventually reunited with his father and this improves his own future.\nIn a short scene after the curtain call, Christopher reappears to brilliantly solve a mathematics problem posed earlier in the play.