Bullfighting
Author: Doyle, Roddy
ISBN: 9780099555629
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 May 2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Bullfighting is Roddy Doyle's eagerly anticipated second collection of stories; a series of bittersweet tales revealing a panorama of Ireland today
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.
ISBN: 9780099555629
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 May 2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
Bullfighting is Roddy Doyle's eagerly anticipated second collection of stories; a series of bittersweet tales revealing a panorama of Ireland today
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.
