The Barrytown Trilogy
Includes the Commitments
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2013
Summary
All three of Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown novels in one volume, featuring Jimmy Rabbitte and includes The Commitments, now a major West End show.Here, in one volume, are Roddy Doyle’s three acclaimed novels about the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In them we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte’s soul band, the Commitments, and their equally rapid fall; Sharon Rabbitte’s attempts to keep the identity of her unborn child’s father a secret, amid intense speculation from her family and fr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099590521 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099590522 |
| Author: | Roddy Doyle |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2013 |
| Weight: | 627g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 39mm |
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Critics Review
Mr Doyle has made his own the gritty world of modern Dublin * New York Times *An absurd comedy of the commonplace…a charming, truthful and immensely funny story which leaves you gasping for more * Sunday Times on THE COMMITMENTS *Brilliant…it pushes Irish English to wonderful imaginative extremes – Tom Paulin on THE COMMITMENTSWhile recognising that we have all sat po-faced through novels which other people have assured us were hilarious…all I can say is that The Snapper creased me up – Jonathan Coe on THE SNAPPERA novel which is often hilarious, always enthralling and - this really is the case - unputdownable * Sunday Times on THE VAN *
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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