The CommitmentsIn 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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User Review - wagner.sarah35 - LibraryThingI don't know that I've ever read a book that I could nearly sing along to before, which is certainly the case in this short novel about a soul band being formed in Dublin, Ireland. A fun, quick read for anyone who loves soul music or even classic rock. Read full review
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User Review - bluepigeon - LibraryThingA very short and funny story about a group of blue collar guys, mostly in their late teens, who form a soul music band. The characters are colorful and the language is very Dublin (I imagine...) In a ... Read full review
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| Title | The Commitments Vintage contemporaries |
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0679721746, 9780679721741 |
| Length | 165 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General Fiction / Literary |
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