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Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels, including The Commitments, The Van (a finalist for the Booker Prize), Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (winner of the Booker Prize), The Woman Who Walked into Doors, A Star Called Henry, Smile, and, most recently, Love. Doyle has also written several collections of stories, as well as Two Pints, Two More Pints, and Two for the Road, and several works for children and young adults, including the Rover novels. He lives in Dublin.
Author Residence: Dublin, Ireland
Author Hometown: Dublin, Ireland
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A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Love 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 written mostly 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.
TREMENDOUS RECENT SUCCESS: Doyle's last novel, Love, received rapturous responses in the U.S. and U.K. It was reviewed and excerpted in The New York Times Book Review, which also conducted two interviews with him; Roddy appeared on two NPR programs and held four very successful virtual events.
CLASSIC DOYLE: Roddy's two previous short story collections, The Deportees and Bullfighting, were widely and warmly reviewed; the short form sits right at the intersection of Roddy's talent for combining his trademark wit with razor-sharp dialogue, and suffusing his narratives with warmth, humanity, and the achingly precise understanding of love and loss that has made him so beloved.
HIGH PROFILE INITIAL PUBLICATIONS OF THESE STORIES: Three of these stories made their initial appearance in the New Yorker, who has been publishing Roddy for years.
