Smile: A Novel

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Smile: A Novel

From the author of the Booker Prize winningÂ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, aÂ bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past.

"It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best."Â -- npr.org

â€œThe closest thing heâ€™s written to a psychological thriller."â€“ The New York Times Book Review

Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnellyâ€™s for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victorâ€™s name and to remember him from secondary school. 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 memoriesâ€”of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victorâ€™s own small claim to fame, as the man who would say the unsayable on the radio. But itâ€™s the memories of school, and of one particular brother, that Victor 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 humor, 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 reevaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.

Country	USA
Author	Roddy Doyle
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780735224445
ISBN	0735224447
Label	Viking
Manufacturer	Viking
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2017-10-17
Publisher	Viking
ReleaseDate	2017-10-17
Studio	Viking

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