Roddy Doyle

Qui son els Mofetes i que es el Metode Xof?Molt senzill: els Mofetes son uns essers diminuts i sigil·losos que quan riuen fan hi, hi, hi per no cridar latencio de ningu. Vigilen els nens per assegurar-se que els adults els tracten be. I si algun adult es porta malament, el sotmeten al Metode Xof. Si envien els nens al llit sense sopar, o els espanten, els sotmeten al Metode Xof. Si no son sincers amb els nens, els sotmeten al Metode Xof. Uf, que en son de cruels els adults de vegades, ¿oi?Pero ¿en que consisteix el Metode Xof? Aixo es el millor de tot, pero no ho podem explicar aqui. Els Mofetes no ens ho perdonarien. Diguem nomes que el xof del metode es el so que fa el peu quan trepitja una enorme i fastigosa... Ehem.Millor que obriu el llibre. I vigileu que trepitgeu

Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, which was shortlisted for the 1991 Boo

Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It includes the short story Jimmy Jazz.

El famoso irlandés Reserva galardonado ha inmigrantes de una revista escrito cuentos cortos, muchos de ellos divertidos, otros muy emotivo. Encontramos incluir Jimmy Rabbitte de nuevo, el fundador de los compromisos, con una nueva banda llamada deportados. Un nuevo sesgo en la experiencia inmigrante, algo de importancia cada vez mayor en la actual Irlanda. Roddy Doyle: un magnifico escritor de cuentos cortos!

When we first met Paula Spencer - in The Woman Who Walked into Doors - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the cafe, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria. Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of them are called Marcus and Sapphire. Reviewing The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Mary Gordon wrote: 'It is the triumph of this novel that Mr Doyle - entirely without condescension - shows the inner life of this battered house-cleaner to be the same stuff as that of the heroes of the great novels of Europe.' Her words hold true for this new novel. Paula Spencer is brave, tenacious and very funny. The novel that bears her name is another triumph for Roddy Doyle.

¿Un perro que se convierte en caballero andante?¿Un bebé que participa en una operación de rescate?Mister Mack ha sido detenido debido a un malentendido en una oficina bancaria, relacionado con una sierra que, lamentablemente, tenia forma de ametralladora. Mientras tanto, la señora Billie Jean Fleetwood-Mack se encuentra en paradero desconocido, pues ha salido de viaje con la intencion de convertirse en la primera persona en dar la vuelta al mundo sin que sus hijos lo sepan. Mientras tanto, los jovenes Robbie y Jimmy Mack traman como perforar un tunel que les conduzca hasta la celda donde esta encerrado su padre. Y mientras tanto, las babosas de Dublin se preparan para levantarse en masa y adueñarse del mundo, y no permitiran que nada, pero nada de nada, se interponga en su camino. ¿Podra el perro Rover, ayudado por la pequeña Kayla Mack, esquivar a la cazahuerfanos y enfrentarse a los fornidos vigilantes de la prision para salvar al padre de la niña, y al mundo en general? ¿Saldra la descacharrante familia Mack con buen pie de esta nueva y desenfrenada operacion de rescate?Roddy Doyle es el autor de Una estrella llamada Henry, que estuvo en la lista de los libros mas vendidos del New York Times y es el primero de una trilogia dedicada a Irlanda. En 1993 recibio el Booker Prize por la novela Paddy Clarke, ja, ja, ja, y otro de sus libros, Los Commitments, fue llevado al cine con gran exito. El señor Doyle vive en Dublin, Irlanda, con su mujer y sus tres hijos.Brian Ajhar nacio el 1 de septiembre de 1957 en Easton, Pennsylvania. El ha estado ilustrando para revistas, libros y agencias de publicidad por mas de 20 años. El es graduado de la escuela Parsons en diseño en New York City en donde el estudio. Ha enseñado ilustracion en la universidad de Artes en Philadelphia, Pennsylvania y es conferenciante y profesor invitado en la universidad de Syracuse, en Nueva York.

Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnellys 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 Victors 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 Victors own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio.But its the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.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.

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasnt had a drink for four months and five days.

Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

Roddy Doyle´s three fabulously funny children´s books about Rover the Wonder Dog and the eccentric Mack family now collected in one volume. The poo is about to hit the shoe...

En 1924 Henry Smart deja atrás una Irlanda católica y caótica para adentrarse en el loco y fascinante mundo que representaba Estados Unidos en los años veinte. Un universo lleno de licor ilegal, sexo y jazz. Henry pasa de traficar con brebajes en Manhattan a sobrevivir en una Chicago azotada por las mafias, para finalmente convertirse en el hombre de confianza de Louis Armstrong. Una fascinante novela que parece salida de la pantalla del mejor cine negro.

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss... They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids pets, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 -about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queens visit.

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family is forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon's child?