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Roderick Doyle (born 8 May 1958) [1] 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 stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991.
2 days ago · The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle (Vintage, 2013). Back where it all began. Doyle’s beloved early novels (The Commitments 1987; The Snapper, 1990; and The Van, 1991) defined a gritty but ...
- Washington Post
Review | Roddy Doyle brings back Paula Spencer to find humor and tragedy in resilience
The women in Roddy Doyle’s “The Women Behind the Door” are so flawed: bruised, crass, guilt-ridden, incontinent, self-centered, blunt to a fault, furious at themselves and each other and the ...
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- New Hampshire Union Leader
Review: Booker Prize-winning Irishman Roddy Doyle finds humor and pain in ‘The Women Behind the Door’
At the end of Roddy Doyle’s novel of domestic violence, “The Woman Who Walked into Doors” (1996), Paula Spencer finally fights back after decades of physical abuse, braining her husband Charlo ...
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Sep 8, 2024 · THE WOMEN BEHIND THE DOOR, by Roddy Doyle. Honestly, friends, as a writer and lifelong reader, I would never tell a male author that he can’t write in a female voice. I just wouldn’t. In 1996 ...
Sep 7, 2024 · Roddy Doyle (born May 8, 1958, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish author known for his unvarnished depiction of the working class in Ireland, particularly in his home city of Dublin.
Sep 9, 2024 · Paula Spencer is back for an encore performance in Roddy Doyle’s latest miracle of a novel, “The Women Behind the Door.” In this installment, the 66-year-old mother, grandmother, recovering alcoholic and domestic violence survivor, has weathered the first year of the Covid lockdown in reasonably good sprits.
Sep 7, 2024 · Books. Roddy Doyle: ‘I feel quite good about living in Ireland. But I think we were probably a bit smug’. The author reflects on returning to Paula Spencer for his 13th novel,...
Jun 16, 2024 · Podcast: The Writer’s Voice Listen to Roddy Doyle read “The Buggy.” Maybe that was what had happened here. The frame had given up as the buggy was pushed—shoved, forced—across the sand.
May 18, 2024 · TV & Radio. Roddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994. Thirty years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is...
Jun 16, 2024 · Cressida Leyshon interviews the writer Roddy Doyle about “The Buggy,” his story from the June 24, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.
Roddy Doyle is perhaps the novelist most closely identified with the emergence of Ireland as a modern European nation. His extraordinary success as a writer lies partly in his appeal to a broad readership, and his presentation of difficult social, critical and historical issues in a condensed and accessible form.
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