Paula Spencer - Couverture souple

Doyle, Roddy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099501376 ISBN 13 : 9780099501374

Editeur : Vintage, 2007

Synopsis

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer.

Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn’t had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne.

Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job seem to come from Eastern Europe. You can get a cappuccino in the café and the checkout girls are all Nigerian. Ireland is certainly changing, but then so too is Paula – dry, and determined to put her family back together again.

‘A phenomenally rewarding read… Could not be bettered in its depiction of the minutiae of the life of a recovering alcoholic: relentless, trivial, terrified’ Observer

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099501376
• ISBN 13: 9780099501374
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible