Life Without Children

Life Without Children
Roddy Doyle
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Paperback
h196 x 126mm - 192pg
21 Feb 2023 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780593300589
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A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories. A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother' s funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle' s signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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ISBN-13: 9780593300589
Published: 21 Feb 2023
Published In: United States
Imprint: Penguin USA
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 126mm
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 142g
Pages: 192

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