Life without children : stories / Roddy Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Roddy, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease)--Fiction.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Fiction.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

Public health administration--Fiction.

Public health administration.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Collective memory.

Great Britain--Fiction.

Great Britain.

Ireland--Dublin.

Collective memory--Fiction.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

177 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Viking, 2022.

Summary:

"Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the streets, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet"-- Adapted from dust jacket flap.

Contents:

Box Sets

The Curfew

Life Without Children

Gone

Nurse

Masks

The Charger

The Funeral

Worms

The Five Lamps.

Notes:

"First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd, London, in 2021."

Other Format:

Online version: Doyle, Roddy, 1958- Life without children

ISBN:

9780593300565

0593300564

OCLC:

1280429678

Publisher Number:

99989376521