and Other Stories
Edición de la obra The Deportees and Other Stories
| Autor | Roddy Doyle |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Viking Adult, Viking |
| Fecha de publicación | January 10, 2008 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 256 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780670018451 |
| ISBN-10 | 0670018457 |
| OCLC | 123912631 |
| LCCN | 2007017659 |
| Número de Cutter | D754d |
Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland.The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to 'scare them shitless'.Most of the stories are very funny - in '57% Irish' Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and 'Danny Boy' - others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself,Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.