num_pages: 246
description: Over twenty-five true stories told from the driver's seat of a Dublin city taxicab. A hugely entertaining and brilliantly written slice of real Dublin that takes you all the way - with plenty of laughs along the journey.Tales in a Rearview Mirror is a collection of true stories as told from the driver s seat of a Dublin taxi. Some are funny, some are sad, some are foolish and some are bittersweet. Pretty much like the people Donal Ruane observes as he reluctantly drives around the city. All human life is here. There s the criminal's girlfriend who s just bought a house for cash in ox-bleedin-rock. The eccentric American looking for a hooker. The drunken northsider chancing his arm to share a taxi home with a south county darling. The mother and father of all family rows in Ballyfermot. And lots more besides.Tales in a Rearview Mirror is the real deal. It s a hugely entertaining, brilliantly written slice of real Dublin life that you won t get anywhere else.
language: English
title: Tales in a Rearview Mirror
titlecomplete: Tales in a Rearview Mirror
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 39
publisher: Gill & MacMillan