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In "Vintage Living Texts", teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Roddy Doyle. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Roddy Doyle, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Doyle's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
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In Vintage Living Texts, students, teachers, and general readers will find essential guides to some of the most exciting works in contemporary literature. Each guide focuses on three or four works by a major novelist; the series is unique in that it offers exclusive in–depth interviews with the authors relating specifically to the texts under discussion. Readers are introduced to the writers’ themes, genres, and narrative techniques, and a reading of the guides provides a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Each of these outstanding books is complete with detailed reading plans for the novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative readings, extracts from reviews, biographies, a bibliography, and a glossary of literary terms.
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The essential guide to Doyle's themes, genre and narrative techniques in The Snapper, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Van, The Commitments, and including an exclusive author interview.
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- PublisherVintage UK
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0099452197
- ISBN 13 9780099452195
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages204
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