Roddy Doyle

¿Que quienes son las risitas y que es El Metodo Chof?Muy sencillo: las Risitas son unos seres diminutos y sigilosos, que cuando se rien hacen ji ji ji para no llamar la atencion de nadie. Siguen a los ninos para asegurarse de que los adultos los tratan bien. Y si algun adulto se porta mal... le aplican el Metodo Chof. Si mandan a los ninos a la cama sin cenar, o los asustan, les aplican el Metodo Chof. Si no son sinceros con los ninos, les aplican el Metodo Chof. Uf, que crueles son los adultos a veces... ¿verdad?Pero ¿en que consiste el Metodo Chof? Pues eso es lo mejor de todo, pero no podemos contarlo aqui, las Risitas no nos lo perdonarian. Digamos sencillamente que el CHOF del Metodo es el sonido que hace el pie al pisar una enorme y pringosa... ejem.Mejor abrid el libro. Y mirad por donde pisais.

At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle''s trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who''s there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry''s story into a film. He appoints him ''IRA consultant'' on his new film, The Quiet Man. The Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford''s film, John Wayne and Maureen O''Hara, and the famous director himself, ''Pappy'', who in series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. Ten years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor, feared a little by the teachers but loved by the boys, who call him ''Hoppy Henry'' on account of his wooden leg. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero: the old IRA veteran who''s lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn''t take long before the Provos come calling. They need men like Henry. They wheel him out at funerals and rallies, a heroic veteran of 1916. Henry is to find he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy. In three brilliant novels, A Star Called Henry, Oh, Play That Thing and The Dead Republic, Roddy Doyle has told the whole history of Ireland in the twentieth century. And in the person of his hero, he has created one of the great characters of modern fiction.

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.

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.

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

Just moved into 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 a 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.

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...

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!

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.

Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle s spectacular return to his iconic heroine Paula Spencer The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives SUNDAY TIMES Brilliant passionate funny and humane DAVID NICHOLLS At sixty six Paula Spencer mother grandmother widow addict survivor is finally living her life A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys a man Joe with whom she shares what she wants friends who see her for who she is and four grown children now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for Despite its ghosts Paula has started to push her past aside That is until Paula s eldest Nicola turns up on her doorstep Independent affluent a loving wife and mother a success Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind Over the next few days as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes jokes memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other Paula Spencer is a hymn to female generosity the ordinary discardable kind that keeps the world turning Reading her voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me followed by love ANNE ENRIGHT

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.

While Tom and Johnny are on a husky safari in Finland their half sisterGrainne stays behind to face the mother who abandoned her But Tom and Johnny are too caught up in their adventure to thinkof home until they find themselves lost in the snow strugglingto survive

A collection of stories which range from Guess Whos Coming to the Dinner, where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a ghost story, The Pram, about a Polish nanny who scares her charges older sisters.

Un policía bisoño se presenta de súbito en casa de Paula: su marido, Charlo, ha muerto a manos de las fuerzas del orden. Charlo era guapo, fascinante, el preferido de todas las amigas de Paula. Y un chulo. Es la vida de Paula, en nítidas escenas que cortan el aliento por su precisión y su realismo. Es el martirio de Paula, una mujer sencilla y soñadora, bajo el poder de un marido brutal. Palizas, lesiones graves, torturas. Visitas a Urgencias. La excusa de costumbre: «Me he dado un golpe con la puerta». Un aborto. Los médicos tratan a Paula con desdén. Una mañana, Paula coincide con Nicola, su hija, en la cocina. Charlo la mira de un modo extraño. De repente, Paula comprende. Entre ambas mujeres, a golpe de sartén, consiguen echar a Charlo a la calle. Han hecho, por fin, algo bueno. Una novela absolutamente extraordinaria, que viene a confirmar la estatura literaria de uno de los grandes novelistas irlandeses de nuestro tiempo.