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The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in their world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. 'The stories, his memories, were wearing out' the narrator of the title story thinks, 'and there was nothing new replacing them.'

The stories move from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. In the first, 'Recuperation', a man sets off for a prescribed walk around his neighbourhood, the sights triggering memories and recollections of his wife, his children, his younger days. In 'Animals', George remembers caring for his children's many pets, his efforts to spare them grief when they die or disappear, looking, in the eyes of his wife, like a hero, like 'your man from ER'. But now his kids are reared and he's unemployed, and he's slowly getting used to that. 'Suffer, your man Krugman said, when he was asked how Ireland should deal with the next ten years. Well, this is George, suffering.'

Brilliantly observed, funny and moving, the stories in Bullfighting present a new vision of contemporary Ireland, of its woes and triumphs, and of the Irish middle-aged male confronting new realities. It is a masterful new collection from one of the country's greatest writers.

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`Doyle snaps entire lives into sharp focus in a handful of pages, which is short fiction doing what short fiction does best' --The Times

'This collection is brilliant: very funny but also tragic and tender'. --Saga, May 2011

`...a muted celebration of everday life and its consolations' --The Sunday Times

'This is a funny book about serious stuff ...Doyle's descriptions of fatherhood will leave a powerful impression on any reader.' --Daily Mail, Christena Appleyard

`The trademark deadpan style of Doyle's storytelling make this an entirely believable comedy.'
--The Guardian, Gerard Woodward,

`Fans of Doyle's work will doubtless find much to celebrate in Bullfighting.' --TLS

`These rather tender-hearted sketches of how men get old in contemporary Ireland may not be autobiographical but they're true; they come from life as lived.' --London Evening Standard

`Roddy Doyle's Bullfighting offers a series of rare and beautiful mid-life meditations.' --Sunday Express

`Doyle's writing seems so natural, so effortless that I sometimes think we overlook how good it is.' --Herald Scotland

`Devoured in a single reading, these stories are deeply moving and occasionally lump-in-throat inducing.'
--Metro, 4* review
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Bullfighting is Roddy Doyle's eagerly anticipated second collection; a series of bittersweet tales on men and middle age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today.

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  • PublisherJonathan Cape
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 0224091433
  • ISBN 13 9780224091435
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  • Number of pages224
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