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Title: Smile
Author: Roddy Doyle
Narrator: Roddy Doyle
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-17
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Smile, written and read by Roddy Doyle.
Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocation of childhood but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to re-evaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.
Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one.
One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories too of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor's own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio.
But it's the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.
Critic Reviews:
"Roddy Doyle's finest book in 20 years." (John Boyne)
"A book that made me feel I really was in the presence of a master." (Sebastian Barry)
"Doyle writes about damage without relish or sensationalism. In Smile he manages to be considered and to take risks at the same time." (Anne Enright)
