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Article: RODDY DOYLE'S TALENT IS IN FINDING HUMOR IN DUBLIN'S BLEAK SLUMS.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 4, 1999
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With his great dark wit sweeping the streets of Dublin for its hard-earned truths, Roddy Doyle is renowned for his comic gifts - he's emerged in recent years as one of the eminent straight men of Ireland's literary renaissance.
But Doyle is funny the way the finest humorists dare to be, using comedy to make bearable the grimmest of human realities.
Doyle's fiction has gotten progressively bleaker with each work. Now comes the first volume of a projected trilogy spanning the 20th century, with yet another splendidly conceived voice in charge of the tale. Henry Smart is not just a big, handsome lug who takes liberties with half the women he meets; he's ...