The Deportees and Other Stories

Doyle, Roddy

ISBN 10: 0670018457 / ISBN 13: 9780670018451

Published by Viking, New York, 2003

About this Item

8vo, 242 pp.

Seller Inventory # 045213

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Deportees and Other Stories
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670018457
• ISBN 13: 9780670018451
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A first collection of short works by the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha depicts the immigrant experience in contemporary Ireland as reflected in the stories of a father who confronts his prejudices when his daughter brings home a black man, a nine-year-old African boy's first day in a new school, and a nanny who plots against her charge's older sisters.

About the Author

Roddy Doyle has written eight novels, including The Commitments, The Van, The Woman Who Walked into Doors, A Star Called Henry, and, most recently, Paula Spencer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He has also written four screenplays as well as several stage plays and books for children and young adults, most recently Wilderness.