Smile /
By: Doyle, Roddy [author.].
Series: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Publisher: London, England : Jonathan Cape, 2017Description: 213 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781911214762; 9781911214762:; 1911214764; 1911214756; 9781911214755.Subject(s): English fiction -- Irish authors | English fiction -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 823.92 DOY Awards: Longlisted for the IMPAC award 2019Summary: 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 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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823.92 CUN A life of her own / | 823.92 CUS Transit / | 823.92 DAV Playing possum / | 823.92 DOY Smile / | 823.92 DUN Love Notes from a German Building Site / | 823.92 DUN A sabbatical in Leipzig / | 823.92 DUN A sabbatical in Leipzig / |
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 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.
Longlisted for the IMPAC award 2019