02479cam a2200289 4500 599269766 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593552988 0593552989 af9ec32c-02e0-4bd6-a3e4-57ad351d25fe OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6397005 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Doyle, Roddy. Life Without Children [Libby] : Stories. Books on Tape, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 134MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 134MB. Literature. Short Stories. HTML:“[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 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, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, 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.   Told with Doyle’s signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=af9ec32c-02e0-4bd6-a3e4-57ad351d25fe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=af9ec32c-02e0-4bd6-a3e4-57ad351d25fe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)