Bullfighting moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each is concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger.
Brilliantly observed, funny and moving, the stories in Bullfighting present a new vision of contemporary Ireland, of its woes and triumphs.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099555629
Number of pages: 224
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
Weight: 159 g
Language: English
An effortless read, told in warm and witty Roddy Doyle style. - Reading Matters
Realistic and funny... This is a funny book about serious stuff... Doyle's descriptions of fatherhood will leave a powerful impression on any reader - Christina Appleyard, Daily Mail
Probably the finest collection of Irish short stories since James Joyce's Dubliners - Globe and Mail
The trademark deadpan style of Doyle's storytelling make this an entirely believable comedy - Gerard Woodward, Guardian
Roddy Doyle's Bullfighting offers a series of rare and beautiful mid-life meditations - Jane Clinton, Sunday Express
Doyle's writing seems so natural, so effortless that I sometimes think we overlook how good it is - Teddy Jamieson, Herald
Doyle snaps entire lives into sharp focus in a handful of pages, which is short fiction doing what short fiction does best - The Times
These rather tender-hearted sketches of how men get old in contemporary Ireland may not be autobiographical but they're true; they come from life as lived - Evening Standard
Insightful collection of stories - Phil Hogan, Observer
A muted celebration of everday life and its consolations - Phil Baker, Sunday Times
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The Housemaid
The Divorce
The Wedding People
The Long Shoe
Heart the Lover
The Eights
When the Cranes Fly South
We All Live Here
What We Can Know
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