The Deportees

by Roddy Doyle

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For his many devoted readers: the first collection of stories from Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle.For the past few years Roddy Doyle has written stories for Metro Eireann, a magazine by and for immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories take... Read more
For his many devoted readers: the first collection of stories from Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle.

For the past few years 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. Less

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File size8 X 5.15 X 0.7 in
Print pages256
PublisherKnopf Canada
Publication date December 2, 2008
Languageeng
ISBN9781407013435
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Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays and dozens of short...

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