The Deportees And Other Stories |
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Author:
| Doyle, Roddy |
ISBN: | 978-0-676-97912-1 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
Publisher: | Random House of Canada
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Imprint: | Vintage Canada |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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For his many devoted readers: the first collection of stories from Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle. Roddy Doyle has written stories for Metro Eireann, a magazine by and for immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories takes a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in Ireland today.
The Deportees now brings those stories together for all of Roddy' s devoted readers, ranging from a terrifying ghost story, "The...
More DescriptionFor his many devoted readers: the first collection of stories from Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle.
Roddy Doyle has written stories for Metro Eireann, a magazine by and for immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories takes a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in Ireland today. The Deportees now brings those stories together for all of Roddy' s devoted readers, ranging from a terrifying ghost story, "The Pram," in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides-using a phrase she has just learnt-to "scare them shitless," to the glorious title story itself, where Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed the beloved Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no white Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, the Deportees specialize not in soul music, but in the songs of Woody Guthrie.