The Woman Who Walked into Doors

by Roddy Doyle

Paula Spencer--whose identity evolves from competitive sibling to moonstruck wife to embattled mother--recalls episodes from her life, particularly her relationship with her abusive husband, Charlo. Roddy Doyle's novel perceptively explores the world of a woman whose journey through the labyrinth of pain, denial, and emotional and physical rehabilitation strikes many chords, and goes beyond the stereotype of abused wife to address the deeper truths of Paula Spencer's life.

Editions of The Woman Who Walked into Doors

ISBN 9780140255126	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1997	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780786208319	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1997	Price $4.95	Used, Good
ISBN 9780670867752	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Used, Good
ISBN 9780140862881	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Penguin Group USA	Date 1996	Price $2.11	good

Publisher Notes

The author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize, tells the story of Paula Spencer, a woman approaching forty and struggling with alcoholism and a violent marriage. Simultaneous.

Media Reviews

"A skillful mixture of buoyant farce and wrenching drama...Doyle's masterly use of jabbing, staccato sentences and emotional repetitions produces a nervous intensity that exactly reproduces how his heroine--and she is that, no other word will do--lives out her imperilled days. The novel is filled with sharply observed, amusingly distinctive characters...Some may object that Doyle, having perfected a winning formula, is merely writing the same raucous story of small-town Irish life over and over. Well, let them. It's a bloody wonderful story."