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The Guts
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Roddy Doyle
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Thorndike Pr
Publication date
April 25, 2014
Pages
569
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Large print
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781410467904
ISBN-10
1410467902
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.40 lbs.
Original list price
$31.99
Other format details
large print
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Two More Pints | Two Pints | The Woman Who Walked into Doors | Commitments | The Barrytown Trilogy | Paula Spencer | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A triumphant return to the characters of Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle's breakout first novel, "The Commitments," now older, wiser, up against cancer and midlife.
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented The Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 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 online for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin, between chemo and work, he meets two of the Commitments--Outspan Foster, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his long-lost brother, Les, and learns to play the trumpet...
This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyle's fiction: 4 middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock festival watching Jimmy's son's band, Moanin' at Midnight, pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called "I'm Goin' to Hell" that apparently hasn't been heard since 1932... Why? You'll have to read "The Guts" to find out.
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented The Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 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 online for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin, between chemo and work, he meets two of the Commitments--Outspan Foster, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his long-lost brother, Les, and learns to play the trumpet...
This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyle's fiction: 4 middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock festival watching Jimmy's son's band, Moanin' at Midnight, pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called "I'm Goin' to Hell" that apparently hasn't been heard since 1932... Why? You'll have to read "The Guts" to find out.
Editions
Hardcover
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Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (April 25, 2014)
9781410467904 | details & prices | 569 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $31.99
About: A triumphant return to the characters of Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle's breakout first novel, "The Commitments," now older, wiser, up against cancer and midlife.
About: A triumphant return to the characters of Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle's breakout first novel, "The Commitments," now older, wiser, up against cancer and midlife.
from Viking Pr (January 23, 2014)
9780670016433 | details & prices | 327 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $27.95
About: Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prizeâwinning authorThe distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyleâs fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel The Commitments.
About: Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prizeâwinning authorThe distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyleâs fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel The Commitments.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (January 27, 2015)
9780143126096 | details & prices | 328 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaWatch for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017Full of the great joy in storytelling that characterizes Roddy Doyle’s novels, The Guts catches up with Jimmy Rabbitte—the man who in the 1980s formed the Commitments, a band composed of working-class Irish youths whose mission was to bring soul music to Dublin.
About: Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaWatch for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017Full of the great joy in storytelling that characterizes Roddy Doyle’s novels, The Guts catches up with Jimmy Rabbitte—the man who in the 1980s formed the Commitments, a band composed of working-class Irish youths whose mission was to bring soul music to Dublin.
from Gardners Books (August 1, 2013)
9780224098335 | details & prices | 336 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $21.55
About: A triumphant return to the characters of Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle's breakout first novel, The Commitments, now older, wiser, up against cancer and midlife.
About: A triumphant return to the characters of Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle's breakout first novel, The Commitments, now older, wiser, up against cancer and midlife.
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