The Snapper: A Novel - Brossura

Doyle, Roddy

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ISBN 10: 0140171673 ISBN 13: 9780140171679

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 1992

Riassunto

Sharon Rabitte is single, pregnant, and living in Dublin, and as her stomach grows, her situation elicits a wide range of responses from her family and community. By the author of The Commitments. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"Jimmy Sr [is] a wonderful mixture of obscene bluster and boozy sentimentality. . . . He's intensely real, and the novel comes vividly alive as he begins to understand that he can't control the feisty Sharon."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Few novels depict parent-child relationships . . . better than this one, and few men could write sensitively about pregnancy. Don't pass up this novel."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review  

“Very, very funny . . . The most amazing account of a pregnancy ever written.”
--Maeve Binchy

L'autore:

Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. His first three novels—The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van—are known as The Barrytown Trilogy. He is also the author of the novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize winner), The Woman Who Walked into Doors, and A Star Called Henry, and a non-fiction book about his parents, Rory & Ita. Doyle has also written for the stage and the screen: the plays Brownbread, War, Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner, and The Woman Who Walked Into Doors; the film adaptations of The Commitments )as co-writer), The Snapper, and The Van; When Brendan Met Trudy (an original screenplay); the four-part television series Family for the BBC; and the television play Hell for Leather. Roddy Doyle has also written the children's books The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, and The Meanwhile Adventures and contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker magazine and several anthologies. He lives in Dublin.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140171673
• ISBN 13: 9780140171679
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224