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Description for Guts
Hardcover. 1st edition. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Fine in fine dustjacket
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 - his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He ... Read more
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 - his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224098328
SKU
KOC0018674
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Ref
99-1
About Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of ten acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van, two collections of short stories, Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents, and most recently, Two Pints, a collection of dialogues. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. The ... Read more
Reviews for Guts
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more