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The commitments / Roddy Doyle.
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TextSeries: Vintage contemporariesPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Vintage Books, 1989, c1987.Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries edDescription: 165 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0679721746 :
- 823/.914 19
- PR6054.O95 C66 1989
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | Doyle, Roddy | Available | 33111002922603 |
Total holds: 0
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.