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For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper 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, Riverdance 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.
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"the writing is as witty and enjoyable as ever"
-- The Herald
'Charm and animation are the qualities that count with Doyle's deportees, as he goes about sticking up for disparaged incomers' -- The Independent
'Doyle writes some of the sharpest dialogue in current fiction and he can make you bark with laughter.' -- The Spectator
'His wit never deserts him' -- Scotland on Sunday
'agonisingly funny' -- Metro
'as fast and funny as Doyle fans could expect'
-- Daily Telegraph
'these are tales that frequently wag themselves into a blur and leave you dizzy with pure enjoyment' -- The Scotsman
'written with breathless excitement... in short, all the things that make the art of storytelling interesting' -- The Financial Times
`I laughed out loud while admiring the deftness of Doyle's craft.' -- The Irish Times
`There is much to admire and enjoy in the Deportees' -- The Sunday Times
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-- The Herald
'Charm and animation are the qualities that count with Doyle's deportees, as he goes about sticking up for disparaged incomers' -- The Independent
'Doyle writes some of the sharpest dialogue in current fiction and he can make you bark with laughter.' -- The Spectator
'His wit never deserts him' -- Scotland on Sunday
'agonisingly funny' -- Metro
'as fast and funny as Doyle fans could expect'
-- Daily Telegraph
'these are tales that frequently wag themselves into a blur and leave you dizzy with pure enjoyment' -- The Scotsman
'written with breathless excitement... in short, all the things that make the art of storytelling interesting' -- The Financial Times
`I laughed out loud while admiring the deftness of Doyle's craft.' -- The Irish Times
`There is much to admire and enjoy in the Deportees' -- The Sunday Times
Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 022408061X
- ISBN 13 9780224080613
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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