Roddy Doyle: Two More Pints [2014] hardback Condition:New childhood and honour-killing

childhood and honour-killing

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Roddy Doyle: Two More Pints [2014] hardback Condition:New childhood and honour-killingTwo men meet for a pint or two in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, curse the ref, say a last farewell In this second collection of comic dialogues Doyle's drinkers ponder: a topless Kate Middleton Barack and Michelle Obama ('fuckin' gorgeous') David Beckham ('Would you tattoo your kids' names on the back of your neck?' 'They wouldn't fit') Jimmy Savile ('a gobshite') the financial crisis (again) abortion (again) and horsemeat