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He just isn't his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben's back and he won't be OK until it's gone, they decide they're going to get rid of it. Gathering all their courage the children set out on a midnight quest to hunt down the Black Dog and chase it away. But they aren't the only kids on the mission. Loads of other children are searching for it too, because the Black Dog ...

Sharon Rabbit ha vent'anni e vive a Dublino in una famiglia modesta, numerosa e allegramente rissosa, lavora in un negozio e, come il padre, trascorre gran parte del tempo libero al pub con le amiche. Un giorno annuncia ai suoi di essere incinta, senza rivelare di chi. Potrebbe essere l'inizio di una vicenda drammatica o patetica, è invece l'avvio di una commedia del quotidiano con accenti di sincera commozione.

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Boga Güresi, Man Booker ödülü sahibi Irlandali yazar Roddy Doyleun, birbiriyle iliskilendirilebilen on üc öyküsünden olusuyor. Okullardan barlara, mutsuz yatak odalarindan tabuta, bebek bakimindan boga güresine uzanan öykülerdeki hüzün her satirda hissediliyor. Gecmisin muhasebesini yapan, gelecege dair hayaller kurmaya calisan, bugünün sikintilarini tedavi etmeye cabalayan ve aile yasamina, dost meclislerine ragmen yalnizlik ve yitirmislik du...

Sono i primi anni '50, quando Henry Smart, volontario nella guerra d'indipendenza uomo di fiducia di Michael Collins, militante dell'IRA, fa ritorno al paese d'origine dopo un lungo esilio negli Stati Uniti. È un uomo solo, mutilato, soffre di perdite di memoria ed è certo della morte dell'amatissima moglie e dei figli. Ingaggiato dal regista John Ford come "consulente IRA", Smart prende parte alla stesura della sceneggiatura del film che Ford...

Offers a collection of comic dialogues author's drinkers ponder: a topless Kate Middleton, Barack and Michelle Obama ('fuckin' gorgeous'), David Beckham ('Would you tattoo your kids' names on the back of your neck?' 'They wouldn't fit'), Jimmy Savile ('a gobshite'), the financial crisis (again), abortion (again), and horsemeat in your burger...

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn't had a drink for four months and five days.

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For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland.

Roddy Doyle has earned a devoted following for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his ability to fully capture the hearts of his characters. Bullfighting, his second collection of stories, offers thirteen bittersweet takes on men and middle-age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today. Moving from classrooms to local pubs to bullrings, these tales feature an array of men taking stock and reliving past glories, each concerned with loss in differen...

The eight tales in Roddy Doyle's first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there. New Boy describes the first day of school for a nine-year-old boy from Africa, while in The Pram, a terrifying ghost story, a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides--in a new phrase she has learned--to "scare them shitless." In 57% Irish, a man decides to...

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Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Having outlived an abusive husband and father, Paula and her four children are now struggling to live their adult lives, with two of the kids balancing their own addictions. Paula rebuilds her life slowly. As she goes about her daily routine working as a cleaning woman, and cooking for her two children at home, she re-establi...

Jimmy Rabbitte senior, disoccupato e squattrinato, trascina la sua esistenza fra il pub e il campo di calcio dei ragazzi. Quando anche il suo migliore amico, Bimbo, viene licenziato, i due decidono di fare qualcosa per riscattarsi ai propri occhi e a quelli delle famiglie: acquistare un furgoncino e mettersi davanti ai locali, sulle spiagge, a vendere hamburger e patatine. È un'impresa che porterà un po' di soldi, una quantità di avventure imp...

Two years after walking out of Dublin with little more than the boots on his feet, Henry Smart has tossed his passport into New York Harbor and reinvented himself as an American. With a well-cut suit and a pearl gray fedora, Henry is by turns a marketing impresario, jazz enthusiast, and partner in crime as he skips from New York to Chicago and back again, only steps ahead of the death warrant that followed him across the Atlantic. At once a hi...

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