the guts
ISBN:
9780224998335
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Music
bookshelves: radio-4, britain-ireland, dublin, series, fradio, amusing, music, families, published-2013, spring-2014, midlife-crisis, medical-eew, religion, roman-catholic, lifestyles-deathstyles, lit-richer Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 31 to April 28, 2014 R4Descripti...
I won an ARC copy of this novel thanks to a Goodreads First Read giveaway. 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 Co...
If you read a quick synopsis of this, you might think it was a bit grim. Middle-age desperation and colon cancer among musical nostalgia.But this isn't just a re-hash of the Commitments story, just aged, it's as if the characters have been living real lives all this time. So real I feel I knew them....
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