Autobibliography

Rob Doyle author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Swift Press

Published:7th Nov '24

Should be back in stock very soon

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‘Charmingly provocative’ Observer
‘A smorgasbord of delights’ Irish Times
‘Addictive … a writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society’ The Spectator

InAutobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books – from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius to Robert Bolaño and Svetlana Alexievich – as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a record of a year in reading and of a lifetime of books, by one of the most original and exciting writers around.

Reader Reviews

'Enlightening, engaging and fun'

'A *superb* gift for any bookish friend or relative with an eye for the human comedy'

'A page-turner ... bright and fresh'

‘Charmingly provocative’ - Observer


'Addictive self-portrait ... Doyle is sharp and funny as a critic, and morbidly candid about his own life ... we find a writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society, rather than, as in so much contemporary writing, at its cosy core' - Nicholas Harris, The Spectator


‘A smorgasbord of delights’ - Irish Times


‘A captivating journey out of our literary comfort zones’ - Irish Independent


'Doyle’s prose is virtuosic and exuberant ... strangely compelling' - Michael Delgado, inews


'Maddening and beguiling in equal measure ... a brilliant writer ... absolutely essential' - Steven Long, The Crack Magazine

ISBN: 9781800750968

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256 pages