by Roddy Doyle · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749391683
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«The Commitments» is the humorous novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, published by Minerva in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Set in working-class Dublin of the eighties, it tells how Jimmy Rabbitte, a young unemployed man, gathers friends from the neighbourhood to form a soul band and bring that music to the working class. With Joey 'The Lips' Fagan as mentor and the protection of Mickah Wallace, the group moves forward between rehearsals and comic clashes towards their goal of recording.
First instalment of The Barrytown Trilogy; the novel was originally published in 1987.
For readers who enjoy Irish fiction, humour and stories about music bands.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
