Mild Irish Rose
Roddy Doyle's heroine, Paula Spencer, is sober now
Geoff Nicholson

Paula Spencer
by Roddy Doyle
Penguin (Non-Classics)
$14.00 List Price
Roddy Doyle, in an interview published in The Guardian, was quoted as saying, “I still live in the same neighborhood where I grew up, and I still have to face the milkman and the neighbors if they don’t like what I write.” I read this, and all I could think was, ye gods, Doyle’s milkman reads modern fiction. Do you think Jonathan Franzen’s milkman reads Jonathan Franzen? Does Thomas Pynchon’s read Pynchon? Irvine Welsh’s
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