There is an element of improvisation in these Roddy Doyle stories, written as they were on a deadline in serial form. The magnet is reversed as Ireland, source of so much exile literature, becomes the attractor. "Fecking eejit" are the two words that come to mind whenever I hear Doyle's name, but a couple of these stories plumb beyond this welcome good humor to a deeper place.
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