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Bullfighting: Stories (2008)

by Roddy Doyle(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

067002287X (ISBN13: 9780670022878)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: A collection of short stories taking place in Dublin in the 1980s. It is very well written often in Irish blue collar argot, but preoccupied by aging males & their problems of lost usefulness, decrepitude, loss of children(grown & departed)or spouses from which they have drifted apart. There is a peculiarly Irish involvement with alcoholism, pub crawls, and the bonding of men, & there is the unemployment of the recession of the 80's. Though the characters are often sympathetic, they are also pathetic, and given the short story format, do not elicit the reader's total empathy.
review 2: I used to love Roddy Doyle..The Barrytown Trilogy and the Woman Who Walked into Doors were wonderful. So maybe my expectations are too high. I've only read about three of the sto... moreries in Bullfighting, and already I don't like it. It's as though the author is doing a Roddy Doyle impression. Or maybe someone else wrote it in his style. The stories are maudlin and pointless. The main characters in the stories I read are aging men with no ability to relate their inner thoughts. This makes for boring and depressing reading. less

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