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First published in 2011 by Viking Penguin,
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Copyright © Roddy Doyle, 2011 All rights reserved
 
“Recuperation,” “The Photograph,” “Teaching,” “The Joke,” “Ash,” “The Dog,” “Bullfighting,” and “Sleep” first appeared in The New Yorker; “The Slave” (in longer form) in Speaking with the Angel, edited by Nick Hornby (Riverhead, 2001); “Blood” in Stories: All New Tales, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio (William Morrow, 2010); “The Plate” in The Guardian; and “Animals” in The News from Dublin, edited by Joseph O’Connor (Faber and Faber, 2011). “Recuperation” also appeared in New Dubliners, edited by Oona Frawley (New Island, 2005) and “The Joke” also appeared in The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories 2004 – 5, edited by David Marcus (Faber and Faber, 2005).
 
Publisher’s Note
These selections are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
 
Doyle, Roddy.
Bullfighting and other stories / Roddy Doyle.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-51412-2
I. Title.
PR6054.O95B85 2011
823’.914—dc22
2010053424
 
 
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