Life without children : stories

Doyle, Roddy 1958- (author.). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Box Sets. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Curfew. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Life Without Children. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Gone. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Nurse. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Masks. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Charger. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Funeral. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Worms. (Added Author). Doyle, Roddy 1958- Container of (work): Five Lamps. (Added 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781039001800 (paperback)
Physical Description: 177 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
print
Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd, London, in 2021."
Formatted Contents Note:	Box Sets -- The Curfew -- Life Without Children -- Gone -- Nurse -- Masks -- The Charger -- The Funeral -- Worms -- The Five Lamps.