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Archive of Doyle's short fiction for The New Yorker. "The Photograph" (16 October 2006) "The Joke" (29 November 2004) Roddy Doyle's rules for writers; Roddy Doyle's verdict on James Joyce's Ulysses; Interviews and reviews. Author page at Irish Writers Online; Roddy Doyle: Author Biography, Postcolonial Studies at Emory; The Salon Interview ...
The Last Roundup is a series of three novels by Irish writer Roddy Doyle that began in 1999. They follow the life of Henry Smart from Ireland to America spanning most of the 20th century. The series is narrated by Henry as well, providing us the "Omniscient Narrator." Three books have now been published: A Star Called Henry (1999); Oh, Play ...
Pages in category "Novels by Roddy Doyle" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Charlie Savage is a 60-year-old grandfather living in Dublin; he dotes on his grandchildren and dogs, has an indefatigable wife playing drums in a sexagenarian punk covers band, and his drinking mate identifies as a woman.
Italian animation auteur Enzo D’Alò – whose globally known works include “The Blue Arrow,” “Lucky and Zorba,” “Momo” and “Opopomoz” – is back with Roddy Doyle adaptation ...
A Star Called Henry (1999) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.It is Vol. 1 of The Last Roundup series. The second installment of the series, Oh, Play That Thing, was published in 2004.
The New York Times praised "Mr. Doyle's entirely unsentimental and perfectly attuned comprehension of the real world of the Irish present." [1] Robert Christgau wrote that Doyle "has the decency to understand that the most constrained human life is never simple, and the grace and guts to prove how unimpoverished the countless meanings of that truth can be."
The Commitments (1987) (originally to be called The Partitions [1]) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. [2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy , it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin , Ireland, who start a soul band.