The Guts

Name: The Guts
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.7 (22 reviews)
Author: Roddy Doyle
ISBN: 9781666592849

Author: Roddy Doyle

Narrator: Laurence Kinlan

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 01/23/2014

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte formed the Commitments, a ragtag, blue-collar collective of Irish youths determined to bring the soul music stylings of James Brown and Percy Sledge to Dublin. Time proves a great equalizer for Jimmy as he's now approaching fifty with a loving wife, four kids, and a recent cancer diagnosis that leaves him feeling shattered and frightened. 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 for their resurrected albums. As he battles his illness on his path through Dublin, Jimmy manages to reconnect with his own past, most notably Commitments guitarist Liam Outspan Foster and the still beautiful backup vocalist Imelda Quirk.

About Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir of his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He lives and works in Dublin.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karina on June 28, 2013

This is stonkingly good - I think I woke the neighbours this morning, I was laughing that hard. Jimmy Rabbitte (jnr) is now 47, happily married with kids, and has just been diagnosed with bowel cancer - then bumps into the still gorgeous Imelda Quirke from their days in The Committments, fadó fadó........more

Goodreads review by Nancy on March 28, 2014

Whew! I finished my Roddy Doyle 4-book marathon with this one, although I will definitely be back to read more of his work in the near future. My review is a little long, so I apologize in advance. I knew going into this novel that the main character here has been diagnosed with bowel cancer, and I w......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on June 09, 2017

Rabbite At Rest. It's interesting how Doyle's 'Barrytown' trilogy, like The Simpsons, started off being all about the son and became all about the father. Over a quarter of a century after he first appeared in The Commitments,m it's nice to see Jimmy Rabbitte Junior take centre stage again. The last......more