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The Commitments
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Series: Vintage Contemporaries
General FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 0679721746
ISBN13: 9780679721741
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 17 1989
Pages: 165
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679721741
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 17 1989
Pages: 165
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
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.
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