Life without children : stories / Roddy Doyle.

By:

Doyle, Roddy, 1958-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022, c2021.Description: 177 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781039001800 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Short stories, Irish

Genre/Form:

Short stories.

DDC classification:

[Fic] 23

Summary: 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, 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Fiction	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Fiction	FIC DOY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	10/08/2024	33321003214559

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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, 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.

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