β Doyle, Roddy
π Fiction
π
2013
π Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
π English
β 69 KB
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The Commitments
β Scribed by Roddy Doyle
- Publisher
- Guanda
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- Italian
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 missionβto 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 egotismβans 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.
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