Book
Life without children : stories
Call Number
- FICTION DOYL (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First United States edition.
Publication Information
New York : Viking, 2022.
Physical Description
177 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the streets, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet"--
Notes
"First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd, London, in 2021."--Title page verso.
Contents
- Box sets
- Curfew
- Life without children
- Gone
- Nurse
- Masks
- Charger
- Funeral
- Worms
- Five Lamps.