Smile (SIGNED COPY)

Doyle,Roddy

ISBN 10: 1911214756 / ISBN 13: 9781911214755

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2017

About this Item

This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket,with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED on a bookplate by Roddy Doyle on the Title Page.Nice Clean copy for the collector.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness,8vo 213pp First Edition 1st Impression [2017].

Seller Inventory # 80547

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Smile (SIGNED COPY)
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911214756
• ISBN 13: 9781911214755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocation of childhood – but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to re-evaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.

Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint, a slow one.

One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick.

Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers.

He prompts other memories too – of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio.

But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.

About the Author

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