Not in the hands of Irish writer Roddy Doyle. His new novel, “Love,” turns one ... his father being paralyzed by grief, but the lonely boy he was still lives in his heart.

The foreword to “The Deportees and Other Stories” explains the genesis of Roddy Doyle’s first short ... at a Celtic Tandoori restaurant. “New Boy” traces a 9-year-old’s appropriate ...

Roddy Doyle’s new collection, “Life Without Children ... when the desperate father finds his boy, he hands him a plastic bottle of mango smoothie, a transactional moment that stands ...

And Roddy Doyle conquered the world ... set up a meeting in Dublin with a BBC producer – the man who had brought Boys from the Blackstuff to the screen – and Roddy pondered his options ...

By Daphne Merkin LIFE WITHOUT CHILDREN Stories By Roddy ... Doyle’s broad range, which includes depictions of rough-and-tumble Dublin teenagers (“The Commitments”); a 10-year-old Dublin boy ...

By Roger Rosenblatt LOVE By Roddy Doyle When I tell you that Roddy Doyle’s new novel ... When they were boys, Joe used to bring phonograph records over to Davy’s house for them to play ...