- Social life and customs, Literature, Immigrants, Fiction
Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland.
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Contemporary, classical in form, effortless and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Random House Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9789038890548
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