Smile: A Novel
by Roddy Doyle /
2017 / English / EPUB
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From the author of the Booker Prize winning
From the author of the Booker Prize winningPaddy Clarke
Ha Ha Ha,
Paddy Clarke
Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of
memory and how we contend with the past.
a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of
memory and how we contend with the past.
Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years,
Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s for a pint, a slow
one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a
pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name
and to remember him from secondary school. His name is
Fitzpatrick.
Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years,
Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s for a pint, a slow
one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a
pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name
and to remember him from secondary school. 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—of Rachel, his beautiful wife
who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as
the man who would say the unsayable on the radio. But it’s the
memories of school, and of one particular brother, that Victor
cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his
sanity.
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—of Rachel, his beautiful wife
who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as
the man who would say the unsayable on the radio. But it’s the
memories of school, and of one particular brother, that Victor
cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his
sanity.Smile
Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become
famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humor, the superb evocation
of adolescence, but this is a novel unlike any he has written
before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged
to reevaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.
has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become
famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humor, the superb evocation
of adolescence, but this is a novel unlike any he has written
before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged
to reevaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.