Domhnall MacAuley: Middle aged man

Roddy Doyle nailed it. The unspoken aimlessness of middle aged man.  His collection of short stories, “Bullfighting,” was frightening in its ordinariness, the drifting banality of a forgotten tribe. What is left after fatherhood, football coaching, and family? Stories that feature invisible men whose children have grown up, work has plateaued, declined, or disappeared, and stories where the […]

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