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For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to 'scare them shitless'.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Deportees
• Author: Roddy Doyle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780099507055
• ISBN: 0099507056
• ID: 04018568
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 184 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 131 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. August 2008

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