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The Commitments

By Roddy Doyle

The Commitments Contemporary literature

The Commitments

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In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a paradoxical passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and a mission-to bring Soul to Dublin. Doyle writes about the band with a fan's enthusiasm and about Dublin with a native's cheerful knowingness. His book captures all the shadings of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism-ans the redeeming, exhilarating joy of making music. The Commitments is one of the most engaging and believable novels about rock'n'roll ever written, a book whose brashness and originality have won it mainstream acclaim and underground cachet.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
180
Release Date:
1989-07-17
Publication Date:
1989-07-17
Publisher:
Knopf
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679721746
ISBN13:
9780679721741
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
232 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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