Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle

Bullfighting by Roddy DoyleThose who read to escape reality, to immerse themselves in a fictional world more interesting and more exciting than their own, probably won't be very taken byBullfighting, Roddy Doyle's second collection of short stories Unless, that is, they happen to find something particularly exotic in the everyday lives and inner-most thoughts of thirteen middle-aged, middle-class Dublin menFamous for realistically, humorously, and empathetically chronicling the lives of often overlooked Dubliners in novels like The Commitments, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, and the Booker prize winning Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha, Doyle now turns his attention to fathers and husbands of a certain age, quietly puzzling over or simply going about their lives Some of them, like Hanahoe in “Recuperation,” have lost track of things Read more