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Imprint: Jonathan Cape
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781787331181
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 23mm x 144mm
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Weight: 331g
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RRP: £9.99
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC WRITING 2019**
Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who’s realized that he’s been a woman all along… Compiled here for the first time is a whole year’s worth of Roddy Doyle’s hilariousseries for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice to the everyday, he draws a portrait of a man – funny, loyal, somewhat bewildered – trying to keep pace with the modern world (if his knees don’t give out first).
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Imprint: Jonathan Cape
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Published: 07/03/2019
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ISBN: 9781787331181
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 23mm x 144mm
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Weight: 331g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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A delight from start to finish.
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
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A refreshingly positive take on middle age, it’s optimistic, warm-hearted, blokishly moving and written with a master’s pin-sharp command of humour… a book that’s sure to be picked up and revisited time and time again.
Herald Scotland
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More than comedy or insight, this work has tenderness… It does more than tickle our bellies, it warms our hearts.
Niamh Donnelly, Irish Times
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Brilliantly funny. Heart-warmingly, vulnerably hilarious in fact. Doyle has crafted Charlie Savage with great care and has imbued him with such depth of character that I can’t imagine a reader finishing the book without loving him, just a little… savour every page because Charlie Savage will enrich your life as long as he is in it.
Ceire Duggan, RTE Guide
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This portrait of an ordinary man (and one clearly past his best) is by turns hilarious and heartfelt.
Rachel Lloyd, Economist, 1843
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Savage is likeable and bumbling and Doyle’s voice is spot on for [this] persona.
Jane Bradley, Scotsman
