L'amico di una vita
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Pat Dunne e Joe Murphy erano amici da una vita. Erano, perché dopo una banale lite per un cavallo, i due non si sono più parlati per anni. E adesso Joe è morto, lasciando Pat solo e impreparato a fare i conti con sensi di colpa, tristezza e nostalgia. La sera prima del funerale, spinto da tutti questi sentimenti e dalla moglie Sarah, Pat decide di andare alla veglia funebre a casa di Joe. Qui, del tutto inaspettatamente, Joe comincia a parlargli, e Pat si trova nel mezzo di una situazione surreale, costretto alla fine ad affrontare le conseguenze di quegli errori che pensava di essersi lasciato alle spalle per sempre.
Dall’autore di Paddy Clarke ah ah ah!, una storia trascinante e spassosa, colorata dall’inconfondibile humour di un grande scrittore.
- ISBN: 8823513529
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 112
- Data di uscita: 23-06-2016
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I don't know how to describe this. It was simple, weird, but it was slightly confusing too. Luckily I've got two more to try before I judge these properly.
A superb humurous short story leaving you with lots to think about.
It's a strange story of a man invited to the funeral of an old friend with whom he had had a falling-out some years before. When he arrives he sees faces from his past, and when he enters the room containing the coffin things become rather strange.
3.75 stars
This has been published as part of Quick Reads programme. These are a series of short books from a range of different authors to encourage literacy love among adults. Personally I love the time of year they pop up, I have found many authors I would never have considered before through the programme
...what did I just read?
I admired what Doyle was trying to do here. This particular Quick Read started deceptively simple with the announcement of a death. Then towards the end of the book, it became apparent that there was a lot more to this approach to mortality and grief than that. Nevertheless the ending came as quite a Leggi tutto
Closing line: "She started to cry. And so did I." And so did I. Amen. I should have known. Yet I did not. Or I did and wanted to be challenged. Instead..no, just no way it could happen. But that is what happens when your local library is shrinked to microscopic proportions in the name of a refurbishm Leggi tutto
I picked up this book because I thought it's fall this seems spooky. However the beginning of the book was spooky, then the story literally repeated itself like 12 times, and completely lost me. I was still intrigued though hoping something will happen and it didn't. I finished the book and said wha Leggi tutto
When friends fall out in Ireland, they might never speak again. But one thing they can be relied on to do is attend each other's funeral. Funny and a little sad in turn, "Dead Man Talking" is a fine story from Roddy Doyle and is pitch perfect in every respect.
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