Smile

Where have you been?
by Roddy Doyle | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 9780735224469 Global Overview for this book
Registered by mcsar of Richmond, British Columbia Canada on 12/29/2020
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Journal Entry 1 by mcsar from Richmond, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, December 29, 2020
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. But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular Brother that Victor cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.

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 previous book of his, "the closest thing he's written to a psychological thriller." (The New York Times Book Review)

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I really enjoyed the book. And then the ending came, and the book got to a whole other level.

Journal Entry 2 by mcsar at Richmond, British Columbia Canada on Friday, October 1, 2021

Released 2 yrs ago (10/1/2021 UTC) at Richmond, British Columbia Canada

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I finished this a few weeks ago but the book has been waiting for its travelling companion to get ready. And now they are ready to make the trip.

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Journal Entry 3 by collectorkerri at Springfield, Illinois USA on Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Received a few days ago. Looks interesting.

Journal Entry 4 by collectorkerri at Little Free Library #103533 in Springfield, Illinois USA on Thursday, December 29, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (12/29/2022 UTC) at Little Free Library #103533 in Springfield, Illinois USA

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