by Roddy Doyle · Jonathan Cape · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781911214762
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«Smile» is the psychological suspense novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Jonathan Cape in paperback (160 pages, in English).
After moving and living alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde takes refuge in the pub Donnelly's. A stranger named Fitzpatrick claims to know him from school and stirs up memories he would rather avoid: the Christian Brothers, his wife Rachel and his brief radio fame. The novel explores the fragility of memory.
Published on 24 October 2017. Standalone novel, with no subtitle or declared series.
For readers of literary fiction and psychological suspense, with an interest in contemporary Irish literature and unreliable narrators.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
