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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for IMetro Eireann/I, a magazine started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from -~Guess Who's 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 terrifying ghost story, -~The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides -" in a phrase she has learnt -" to -~scare them shitless'. Most of the stories are very funny -" in -~57% Irish' Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, IRiverdance/I and -~Danny Boy' -" others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself,Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.

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.

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 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.

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.