The Commitments (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679721741)

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.

Author: Roddy Doyle
ISBN-10: 0679721746
ISBN-13: 9780679721741
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 07/17/1989
Pages: 165
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.31w x 0.48d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/02/1989