Author: Roddy Doyle
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Mar 2003
| Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle Alfred A. Knopf Canada 238 pages $37.95 cloth ISBN: 0676975666
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Seeing Change Through Wry Irish Eyes by Gerald Lynch
Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's septuagenarian parents, are gifted raconteurs: possessed of considerable powers of memory, loquacious, mildly ironic, self-deprecating, humbly proud, patiently charming. They abundantly repaid this reader's attention, and not because as the parents of an important contemporary Irish novelist they give a privileged view of the environment in which their writer-son developed Read more...
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