{"product_id":"deportees-roddy-doyle","title":"The Deportees, Roddy Doyle","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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'.Most of the stories are very funny - in '57 percent 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Books USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59294165631310,"sku":"9780099507055","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780099507055.jpg?v=1775043832","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/deportees-roddy-doyle","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}