Summary
Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in a new novel by Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle.
Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids… and bowel cancer. He isn’t dying, he thinks, but he might be.
Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, who…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099587132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099587130 |
| Author: | Roddy Doyle |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 245g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
A visceral tragicomedy - as raw and as funny as anything [Doyle’s] written.
A visceral tragicomedy – as raw and as funny as anything [Doyle’s] written. – Olivia Cole * GQ *Remarkable, relevant and, surprisingly for a book that’s ostensibly about cancer, joyful. – Kevin Maher * The Times *Life-affirming and trimphant * Irish Post *A fond, comic treat. * Sunday Times *This is Doyle back in Barrytown and on top form, especially at the festival which closes a glorious book. – Harry Ritchie * Daily Mail *The Guts has life, and heart, and jokes. – Theo Tait * Guardian *The novel is probably the most contemplative that Doyle has written — as a meditation on the importance of family, it is at times almost unbearably moving. – Edmund Gordon * Sunday Times *Bright, jokey, wry and robust. – Patricia Craig * Independent *Unchanged is Doyle’s miraculous ability to serve up dialogue that fizzes with great, often quite rude jokes – but never at the expense of the emotions lying behind them. * Reader’s Digest *As one does with old friends, you leap right back into the conversation as if you’ve never been apart… It’s got a bittersweet humour all its own. – Deborah Dundas * Toronto Star *
About The Author
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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