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Bullfighting

Bullfighting

Bullfighting moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each is concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger.

Brilliantly observed, funny and moving, the stories in Bullfighting present a new vision of contemporary Ireland, of its woes and triumphs.

Reviews

  • An effortless read, told in warm and witty Roddy Doyle style.

    Reading Matters

  • Realistic and funny... This is a funny book about serious stuff... Doyle's descriptions of fatherhood will leave a powerful impression on any reader

    Christina Appleyard, Daily Mail

  • Probably the finest collection of Irish short stories since James Joyce's Dubliners

    Globe and Mail

  • The trademark deadpan style of Doyle's storytelling make this an entirely believable comedy

    Gerard Woodward, Guardian

  • Roddy Doyle's Bullfighting offers a series of rare and beautiful mid-life meditations

    Jane Clinton, Sunday Express

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About the Author

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

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