For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland.
The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to 'scare them shitless'.
Product details
- Paperback | 256 pages
- 129 x 198 x 16mm | 181g
- 26 Aug 2008
- Vintage Publishing
- VINTAGE
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- New ed.
- 0099507056
- 9780099507055
- 140,405
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