The Guts
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 Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 kids... and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be.
Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle—his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money online for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin, between chemo and work, he meets two of the Commitments--Outspan Foster, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk,…
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February 4, 2014RODDY DOYLE was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of ten acclaimed novels, including The Commitments, The Van (a finalist for the Booker Prize), Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (winner of the Booker Prize), The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, A Star Called Henry, The Guts and most recently, Love. Doyle has also written several collections of stories, as well as Two Pints, Two More Pints and Two for the Road, and several works for children and young adults including the Rover novels. He lives in Dublin.
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The Women Behind the Door
Roddy Doyle
Kellie
Kellie Harrington with Roddy Doyle
Life Without Children
Roddy Doyle
The Complete Two Pints
Roddy Doyle
Love
Roddy Doyle
Charlie Savage
Roddy Doyle
Two for the Road
Roddy Doyle
Smile
Roddy Doyle
Two More Pints
Roddy Doyle
The Guts
Roddy Doyle
Jimmy Jazz
Roddy Doyle
The Last Roundup Trilogy
Roddy Doyle