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008			170801s20172017nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9780735224445 (hardcover)
050	0	0	_aPR6054.O95 _bS63 2017
082	1		_aFIC DOY _2
100	1		_aDoyle, Roddy _d(1958-)
245	1	0	_aSmile _c/ Roddy Doyle.
260			_aNew York _b: Viking _c, c2017
300			_a214 pages _c; 22 cm
520			_a"A breakout from the Booker-prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle. A psychological suspense novel unlike any he's written before, about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the uncertainty of memory. Who is unreliable? Just moved in to a new apartment, 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, and of Victor's own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio. But it's the memories of high school, and of one particular Brother, that he 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 adolescence--but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to re-evaluate everything you think you remember so clearly."-- Provided by publisher.
546			_aEnglish
650	1	4	_aSmall cities _vFiction
650	1	4	_aWives _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aStrangers _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aHigh schools _v--Fiction
650	1	4	_aMemory -- Fiction
651	1	4	_aIreland _v--Fiction
655	1	4	_aPsychological fiction
655	1	4	_aSuspense fiction
942			_cMO
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