Memory, language, the struggle to comprehend and name a self, to separate the true history from the false one: these tasks fall to Paula Spencer as they fell to Proust’s Marcel or Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus.
Books The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
- Author
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Roddy Doyle
- Year
- 1996
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
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The Woman who Waked into Doors is a triumph of empathy and pitiless realism. Paula’s voice is as believable as it is wrenching…
Mary Gordon
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Like the soaring voice that keeps echoing long after the last lines of Ulysses, Doyle’s Paula Spencer is at once ordinary and mythical, lyrical and gritty, down-to-earth and so much larger-than-life that her personality keeps spilling over the boundary between the spiritual and the carnal.
Our Thoughts
Doyle’s masterful use of inner-city dialect adds to Paula’s unique voice. She is grimly courageous and wonderfully funny; a battered and broken heroine, exquisitely real.
— Lily Power
Short Cuts
A Farewell to Arms
Love Me
All Names Have Been Changed
The Ginger Man