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Roddy Doyle

The Guts Hardcover – 8 Aug. 2013

by Roddy Doyle (Author)

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Jimmy Rabbitte is back.

The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... and bowel cancer. He isn’t dying, he thinks, but he might be.

Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle – his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments – Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his long-lost brother and learns to play the trumpet…

This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyle’s fiction: four middle-aged men at Ireland’s hottest rock festival watching Jimmy’s son Marvin’s band Moanin’ At Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called ‘I’m Going to Hell’ that apparently hasn’t been heard since 1932…

Why? You’ll have to read The Guts to find out.

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year

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336 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Jonathan Cape
Publication date

8 Aug. 2013
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16.1 x 3 x 24.2 cm
ISBN-10

0224098322
ISBN-13

978-0224098328
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Publisher : Jonathan Cape (8 Aug. 2013)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0224098322
ISBN-13 : 978-0224098328
Dimensions : 16.1 x 3 x 24.2 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 977,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 77,154 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- 89,204 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)

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"A visceral tragicomedy - as raw and as funny as anything [Doyle's] written." -- Olivia Cole GQ "Remarkable, relevant and, surprisingly for a book that's ostensibly about cancer, joyful." -- Kevin Maher The Times "Life-affirming and trimphant" Irish Post "A fond, comic treat." Sunday Times "This is Doyle back in Barrytown and on top form, especially at the festival which closes a glorious book." -- Harry Ritchie Daily Mail

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Jimmy Rabbitte returns in a wonderful new novel by the author of The Commitments – now a major West End Musical.

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year

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Cheshire

Worth a go for Roddy Doyle fans, but not as good as some of his past books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2014

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I was hoping for another laugh out loud book, like those in the Barrytown series, but while it was good, it wasn't anywhere near the level of his past books. It was still written well, and it was quite a difficult subject, but I just didn't feel that much empathy for Jimmy. He is now a middle aged man, admittedly, but he didn't have the same cheeky confidence and banter that he was depicted to have in The Commitments, and I missed that. I had also hoped more of the old characters would be in there too, but just a couple made an appearance. Despite his quirky style of writing, I can usually get into Roddy Doyle's books easily, but for some reason I struggled with this one and it took me two attempts to finish it. I also found his style of punctuation a little off putting too, and its never bothered me before - maybe it's because I didn't love this book. Worth a go though for any Roddy Doyle fans.

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N. Rogers

Funny, but not Roddy's best work

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2018

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I love this man. Roddy Doyle can make words smash through walls and write brilliant dialogue. He's also funny.

This had funny dialogue, and I thought the topic was interesting. I felt it was a bit forced though. A bit of dad rocker about it. The words held strength at times, but it was hardly The Woman Who Walked into Doors. He still probably Ireland's best living writer.

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Gary Peterson

and the Jimmy Jazz bit at the end was the best part of the book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2016

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Having never read Roddy Doyle I decided I should purchase one of his books. Now reading the reviews I can see this one doesn't match the rest. One thing that drew me to the book was having been diagnosed with bowel cancer a few years ago. Doyle has missed a trick there, no mention of a colonoscopy bag, which would have been hilarious during some Rabbittes antics. It was a difficult book to read, I had to go over sentences to work out who had said what. The book got a bit more entertaining at the end when the charcters go to a music festival, and the Jimmy Jazz bit at the end was the best part of the book.Some books you can't put down, I found this one hard to pick up.

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Very enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 September 2013

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I had high hopes for this when I saw it was a sequel of sorts to "The Commitments," and in some respects I wasn't disappointed by the book. Rather than being a direct sequel however it focuses on one of the characters from the earlier book - Jimmy Rabbitte - and follows him through later life, and some of the other "Commitments" characters are only seen briefly or mentioned in passing.

Jimmy is unwell and is diagnosed with bowel cancer. After surgery he endeavours to get his life back on track and true to form he discovers a new musical talent under his nose and tries to make them a star. In terms of storyline that's essentially all there is to it, but the fun of the novel is the dialogue. Doyle isn't a particularly descriptive writer, instead favouring speech (and bad language), so to a certain degree the book reads almost like a screenplay. Often moving, always entertaining, sometimes hilarious, it's not a classic from Doyle but for me it's his best in a while.

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liz bannington

Paints pictures with words

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2018

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Read this at one sitting if you can.
Real life feel all the way.
Describes a man who thinks he's dying then has to get his head round the fact that he's not.Learning to live again,with all that,that entails.
Then the realisation that being diagnosed with cancer can be a new beginning.
Perfect ,couldn't put it down.

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Lou

Bought as present

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2020

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Bought this as a gift. Haven't read it myself so cannot really review it properly. Nice cover though!

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Hilary - rediscovering ceramics

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 January 2014

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Fairly typical Roddy Doyle 'feel' to this, but it hasn't really captured my imagination. It doesn't move quickly enough through the plot to maintain my interest - it's been on the go for a few weeks now and I just want to finish it and get on with the next book, but it doesn't keep calling me back to be read.

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Chris

Okish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2020

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Not his best

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