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Rory & Ita / Roddy Doyle.
LIBRA - Special PR6054.O95 Z477 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doyle, Roddy, 1958---Family.
- Doyle, Roddy.
- Doyle, Roddy, 1958---Childhood and youth.
- Doyle, Roddy, 1958---Homes and haunts--Ireland--Dublin.
- Doyle, Roddy, 1958-.
- Authors, Irish--20th century--Family relationships.
- Authors, Irish.
- Families.
- Dublin (Ireland)--Social life and customs.
- Dublin (Ireland).
- Authors, Irish--20th century--Biography.
- Ireland--Dublin.
- Dublin (Ireland)--Biography.
- Families--Ireland--Dublin.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 338 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Rory and Ita
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Novelist Roddy Doyle, with his legendary skill in illuminating ordinary experience, here shares the story of his parents' lives, largely in their own words. Born in 1925 and 1925, respectively, married in 1951, Rory and Ita Doyle remember the details of their Dublin childhoods and their life together--the people and the politics, the joys and the losses--and show us the transformation of the intensely Catholic society of their youth into the vibrant modern Ireland of today. By turns poignant, wry, hilarious, and sweet but never sentimental, Rory & Ita is an account of the moments that make up two intertwined lives and a book of tremendous warmth and humanity. It offers a whole new look at Doyle's heritage and source of inspiration.
- ISBN:
- 0142003603
- 9780142003602
- OCLC:
- 53889763
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