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An edition of The Commitments
(1987)
The Commitments
1st Vintage Contemporaries edition (24)
by Roddy Doyle
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Take a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths who call themselves The Commitments, give them a paradoxical passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, and a mission -- to bring Soul to Dublin -- and you have the makings of 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. Roddy Doyle, a young Dubliner, writes about the band with a fan's enthusiasm, about his city with a native's cheerful knowingness. His book captures all the shadings of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism - and the redeeming, exhilarating joy of making music.
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Fiction, Bands (Music), Soul musicians, Musical fiction, soul music, gigs, culchies, Dublin (ireland), fiction, Musicians, fiction, Fiction, generalShowing 4 featured editions. View all 15 editions?
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The Commitments
2013, Isis Large Print
Paperback
in English
- Large print edition
0753192594 9780753192597
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The Commitments
1993?, Vintage Contemporaries
Paperback
in English
- 1st Vintage Contemporaries edition (24)
0679721746 9780679721741
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The Commitments
1991, Minerva
Paperback
in English
- Minerva edition, 3rd reprint; Movie tie-in
0749398019 9780749398019
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The Commitments
1989-07, Vintage Books
Paperback
in English
- 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. (6)
0679721746 9780679721741
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The Commitments (1987) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.[2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.
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