{"product_id":"the-deportees","title":"Roddy Doyle: The Deportees [2007] paperback","description":"For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a magazine 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost of the stories are very funny - in '57% Irish' Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and 'Danny Boy' - others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself,Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.","brand":"Doyle, Roddy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49460345471315,"sku":"9780224080620","price":17.13,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":51947511939411,"sku":"XG80224080620","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47455131009363,"sku":"XV80224080620","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/doyle-roddy-roddy-doyle-the-deportees-2007-paperback-59090414928211.jpg?v=1758536227","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/the-deportees","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}