The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
4 journalers for this copy...
This book is so raw it bleeds.
To be sent to cheesygiraffe.
To be sent to cheesygiraffe.
I received in this mail today. Thanks so much platypussj for the book.
It looks like a great read. I may have to bump this up to the top of my reading pile. This isn't going to make me cry is it?
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Publishers Weekly
In Ireland, the euphemism "she walked into a door" is so loaded with grim implications of domestic abuse that it is usually whispered, not spoken. In this astonishing work from Doyle , Dublin housewife and mother Paula Spencer narrates her life as a spouse who walks into doors. Hopelessly in love with heavy drinker and relentless sadist Charlo, Paula is gradually engulfed in psychic darkness, every last particle of self-esteem literally beaten out of her. The devastation of her world is made even more wrenching by her chatty, captivating storytelling, flush with Doyle's knack for Dublin humor, vernacular and local color. With this book, Doyle attains a new level of excellence. He writes about a woman's experience with a perception that is rare, a compassion that is scorching and an uncompromising frankness that splinters his heroine's suffering directly into the reader's heart. Doyle triumphs here, with a tough-minded but deeply moving exploration of a wretched marriage, a microcosm of a pervasive situation in Ireland that few will acknowledge.
It looks like a great read. I may have to bump this up to the top of my reading pile. This isn't going to make me cry is it?
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Publishers Weekly
In Ireland, the euphemism "she walked into a door" is so loaded with grim implications of domestic abuse that it is usually whispered, not spoken. In this astonishing work from Doyle , Dublin housewife and mother Paula Spencer narrates her life as a spouse who walks into doors. Hopelessly in love with heavy drinker and relentless sadist Charlo, Paula is gradually engulfed in psychic darkness, every last particle of self-esteem literally beaten out of her. The devastation of her world is made even more wrenching by her chatty, captivating storytelling, flush with Doyle's knack for Dublin humor, vernacular and local color. With this book, Doyle attains a new level of excellence. He writes about a woman's experience with a perception that is rare, a compassion that is scorching and an uncompromising frankness that splinters his heroine's suffering directly into the reader's heart. Doyle triumphs here, with a tough-minded but deeply moving exploration of a wretched marriage, a microcosm of a pervasive situation in Ireland that few will acknowledge.
Roddy Doyle does an excellent job writing from a battered female's persepective. The first half of the book is more about Paula's life now and before she got married to Charlo. The second half is about all the times she walked into doors. The ending was the best because she threw him out finally.
Received this book from Cheesy from an ALS swap.
I never could understand how a woman would stay with a man that beat her up, but then I haven't been in that situation either. This book will now travel to purple-lilly ion her July birthday box of books.
Journal Entry 6 by Purple-lilly from Heathfield, South Australia Australia on Friday, August 18, 2006
Really looking forward to reading this, if I can get it away from my husband who grabbed it. Thanks lovemylife!
