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Life without children : stories

Doyle, Roddy 1958- (author.).

Summary: "A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 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, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, 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. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet"--

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  • ISBN: 9781432896164
  • Physical Description: 251 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Large print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022.

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Formatted Contents Note: Box Sets -- The Curfew -- Life Without Children -- Gone -- Nurse -- Masks -- The Charger -- The Funeral -- Worms -- The Five Lamps.

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Subject: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Fiction
Families Fiction
Genre: Short stories.
Domestic fiction.
Large type books.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Ellwood City Area Public Library LT F Doyle (Text)
Memorial: Marlon S. "Molly" Barsotti given by Bill & Beverly Rutter.
32102000893962 ECAM Fiction Large-Print Available -
Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library LP FIC DOYLE (Text) 39636100443478 Large Print Fiction Available -
Williamsburg Public Library LGPR FIC DOY (Text) 110WIL0068589N Adult Large Print Fiction Available -
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