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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/08/2008
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ISBN: 9780099507055
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
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Weight: 181g
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RRP: £9.99
For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland.
The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to 'scare them shitless'.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 07/08/2008
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ISBN: 9780099507055
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Length: 256 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
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Weight: 181g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"Writing at the top of his form...Doyle proves a brilliant, offbeat Dublin diplomat. He imagines, with humour and humanity, the difficulties involved in being Irish and in being foreign and unassimilated in Ireland. He has the sharpest eye, the wildest sense of humour and the most benevolent heart"
Observer
