| The Commitments Contributor(s): Doyle, Roddy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679721746 ISBN-13: 9780679721741 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1989 Annotation: This funky, rude, unpretentious first novel traces the short, funny, and furious career of a group of working-class Irish kids who form a band, The Commitments. Their mission: to bring soul to Dublin! |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Urban - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 88082388 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.31" W x 8.06" (0.37 lbs) 165 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |