| Description |
v, 425 pages ; 20 cm |
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Two pints: 2011-2020 -- Two pints: the play -- The zoom pints. |
| Summary |
Roddy Doyle's complete Two Pints series - collected in paperback for the first time, and now with the Two Pints play script.Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub... In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the way, they chased the ebb and flow and stupidity of the year right to the bottom of their pints. Today, they're still at it - even over Zoom, if needs be. Collected for the first time, here is almost a decade's worth of elections and referendums, births and deaths, football, financial crashes, pandemics and the philosophical questions of life, as told through the wit and warmth of Roddy Doyle's comic genius. Includes: Two Pints, Two More Pints, Two for the Road - and, for the first time in print, Two Pints: The Play and The Zoom Pints. |
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Two 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 delicious 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 in your burger...Once again, those we have lost troop through their thoughts - Lou Reed, Seamus Heaney, Reg Presley, Nelson Mandela ('he should never have left the Four Tops'), Phil Everly, Margaret Thatcher, Shirley Temple - and they still have that unerring ability to ask the really fundamental questions like 'Would you take penalty points for your missis?' |
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Male friendship -- Fiction.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction.
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Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction.
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Bars (Drinking establishments) (OCoLC)fst00827779
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Male friendship. (OCoLC)fst01006633
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Ireland -- Dublin.
(OCoLC)fst01205505
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
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Short stories.
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Short stories. Selections
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| Other Form: |
ebook version : 9781473582194 |
| ISBN |
9781529111279 (pbk.) |
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1529111277 (pbk.) |
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9781473582194 (ePub ebook) |
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