Guts A Novel

Name: Guts A Novel
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ISBN: 9780143126096

ISBN-10: 0143126091

ISBN-13: 9780143126096

Edition: N/A

Authors: Roddy Doyle

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Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize–winning authorFull of the great joy in storytelling that characterizes Roddy Doyle’s novels, The Guts catches up with Jimmy Rabbitte—the man who in the 1980s formed the Commitments, a band composed of working-class Irish youths whose mission was to bring soul music to Dublin. Jimmy is nowforty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids . . . and colon cancer. The news leaves him shattered and frightened—he isn’t dying, he thinks, but he might be. As he battles his illness while running a small music business, he runs into former bandmates, reunites with his brother, and decides to live more in the moment.…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/27/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Roddy Doyle is the author of five previous novels, including a Booker Prize nominee, The Van, and a Booker Prize winning international bestseller Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He has also written several screenplays, most recently When Brendan Met Trudy. His first children's book, The Giggler Treatment, will be published in September by Scholastic. He lives in Dublin.