Smile.
Smile.
By
:
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
Publication Date
:
2017
Subject Term
:
Psychological fiction.
Memory -- Fiction.
Psychic trauma -- Fiction.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Ireland -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Christian fiction.
Summary
:
A psychological suspense novel about how we contend with the past, trauma, guilt and regret, and the uncertainty of memory. Who is unreliable? Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories too-- of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor's own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio. But it's the memories of high school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780735273146
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