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Item number:	190341734950
Item location:	Newnan GA, United States
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Author:	Roddy Doyle	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Viking Pr	ISBN-10:	0670867756
ISBN-13:	9780670867752	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	1996	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Good

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Paula Spencer--whose identity evolves from competitive sibling to moonstruck wife to embattled mother--recalls episodes from her life, particularly her relationship with her abusive husband, Charlo. Roddy Doyle's novel perceptively explores the world of a woman whose journey through the labyrinth of pain, denial, and emotional and physical rehabilitation strikes many chords, and goes beyond the stereotype of abused wife to address the deeper truths of Paula Spencer's life.
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Length:	226 pages
Height:	8.8 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	14.4 oz.

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The author of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize, tells the story of Paula Spencer, a woman approaching forty and struggling with alcoholism and a violent marriage.
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"If there is a value beyond the obviously artful writing in this novel, it is that Roddy Doyle comes close to explaining why a woman stays with a man like that, why she endures abuse by him, why, in spite of everything, she still loves him....He describes sex so well from a woman's point of view you feel compelled to stare very, very closely at the author photo....But again and again, as Paula does, we return to the abuse....It is my belief that in the very finest fiction the author disappears, sometimes even along with his or her gender. It doesn't happen very often. But it does here. You don't see a man telling a woman's story with an accuracy and sensitivity you might not have thought possible. You see a woman telling her own story." Boston Book Review - Elizabeth Berg "Punch-drunk, or just plain drunk, Paula meanders through her past, offering us glimpses of her childhood, her courtship, and marriage. These early chapters, though often sombre, retain Doyle's tonal buoyancy, his affection for the rhythms and vitality of ordinary life." Times Literary Supplement - Trev Broughton (04/12/1996) "A skillful mixture of buoyant farce and wrenching drama...Doyle's masterly use of jabbing, staccato sentences and emotional repetitions produces a nervous intensity that exactly reproduces how his heroine--and she is that, no other word will do--lives out her imperilled days. The novel is filled with sharply observed, amusingly distinctive characters...Some may object that Doyle, having perfected a winning formula, is merely writing the same raucous story of small-town Irish life over and over. Well, let them. It's a bloody wonderful story." Bailey

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