The Commitments
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  • Published: 8 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9781473500488
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 39 min
  • Narrator: Laurence Kinlan
  • RRP: $17.99

The Commitments

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EBook
1 Dec 2010
Audiobook
8 Aug 2013
Audiobook
1 Nov 2007
Paperback
1 Oct 2014
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'A charming, truthful and immensely funny story which leaves you gasping for more' Sunday Times

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?
  • Published: 8 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9781473500488
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 3 hr 39 min
  • Narrator: Laurence Kinlan
  • RRP: $17.99
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About the author

Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

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Praise for The Commitments

A contender for the funniest debut of the year...young, feisty, funky, rude, unpretentious and great fun

Time Out

An Irish version of The Blues Brothers...authentic and brilliantly funny

Literary Review

An absurd comedy of the commonplace...a charming, truthful and immensely funny story which leaves you gasping for more

Sunday Times

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

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