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The Commitments
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- Narrator
- Laurence Kinlan
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 8 August 2013
- Run Time
- 3 hours 39 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Critics Review
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A contender for the funniest debut of the year...young, feisty, funky, rude, unpretentious and great fun
Time Out
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An Irish version of The Blues Brothers...authentic and brilliantly funny
Literary Review
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An absurd comedy of the commonplace...a charming, truthful and immensely funny story which leaves you gasping for more
Sunday Times
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One of my favourite trilogies ever, nobody makes hard times as funny as Irish author Roddy Doyle… Beloved classics… The stories will be a balm to your bruised soul.
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Brilliant...it pushes Irish English to wonderful imaginative extremes
Tom Paulin
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Details
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- Narrator
- Laurence Kinlan
- Duration
- 3 hours 39 minutes
- Release Date
- 8 August 2013
- ISBN
- 9781473500488
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Narrative theme: sense of place, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from Paris Hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name?
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