Roddy Doyle

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!

Tá Danny Ó Murchú ag dul le bualadh lena dheartháir Jimmy. Ní fhaca siad a chéile le níos mó ná fiche bliain. Ar an mbealach chuig an gcruinniú, is cuimhin le Danny na tréimhsí maithe agus na drochthreimhsi, an spraoi agus na troideanna agus an t-achrann mor amhain a scar iad. An dtroidfidh siad aris no an mbeidh siad ina gcairde mar ba ghnath leo a bheith? Nil a fhios ag Danny.Danny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. They havent seen each other in over twenty years. On the way to the meeting, Danny remembers the good times and the bad times, the fun and the fights - and the one big row that drove them apart. Will they fight again or will they become the friends they used to be? Danny doesnt know.

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.

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...

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.

¿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.

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.

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

Roddy Doyles 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.

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.