Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardJimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle.
Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in a new novel by Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle
Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever.
This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life.
Includes the short story Jimmy Jazz
A visceral tragicomedy - as raw and as funny as anything [Doyle's] written. Olivia Cole GQ
Ausgezeichnet: Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards - Eason Novel of the Year, 2013.
Nominiert: I.M.P.A.C. Dublin Award, 2015
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.
Über den Autor
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of nine acclaimed novels including the Barrytown Trilogy, 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.
Klappentext
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. He's 47, with a loving family... and bowel cancer. This long-awaited sequel to THE COMMITMENTS is a novel about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes with four middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock festival watching Jimmy's son's band pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song that hasn't been heard since 1932. Why? You'll have to read THE GUTS to find out.
Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in a new novel by Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
