Bullfighting Lib/E : Stories (CD-Audio)

from victorianist

Doyle has written a funny and moving collection of contemporary short stories about the pleasures and woes of middle aged men.

from

Uneven. Consistent and interesting focus on struggles with old age. Lost interest of some of the stories.

from eenerd

Beautifully written, universally relevant set of stories about getting older. Reflects and ruminates upon relationships, marriage, parenthood, and aging. These stories, all told from the point of view of middle aged (and older) men, are all coming to grips with the passage of time in ones life. W...

from DuffDaddy

Love the Roddy! This is where he is best - short and (seemingly) simple stories about your average Irish Joe. Some of them made me squirm, others laugh out loud, but they all made me think. My favorites were Bullfighting (but haven't i read that one before?), The Dog, and Funerals. But I liked al...

from Hagelstein

Not a lot happens in the stories in Bullfighting, but there's a lot going on. The characters are all fighting. Fighting health, fighting age, regret, loneliness, deteriorating marriages. Parents are losing children to adulthood and their own parents to childhood. They fight back with love. Love o...