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The Barrytown Trilogy

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099590521
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Barrytown Trilogy written by Roddy Doyle and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in one volume, are Roddy Doyle's three acclaimed novels about the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In them we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte's soul band, the Commitments, and their equally rapid fall; Sharon Rabbitte's attempts to keep the identity of her unborn child's father a secret, amid intense speculation from her family and friends; and the fortunes of the travelling fish 'n' chips van that Jimmy Rabbitte Sr and his friend Bimbo launch for the good people of Barrytown. 'Mr Doyle has made his own the gritty world of modern Dublin' New York Times 'An absurd comedy of the commonplace...a charming, truthful and immensely funny story which leaves you gasping for more' Sunday Times on The Commitments 'A superb creation, exploding with cheerful chauvinism and black Celtic humour... You finish the book hungry for more' The Times on The Snapper 'A wonderfully funny book, that crackles and spits like fat in the fryer. It is also very touching...fine entertainment' Daily Telegraph on The Van

The Van

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0749399902
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Van written by Roddy Doyle and published by Random House. This book was released on 1992 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and set in a Dublin suburb during the 1990 World Cup, this completes a trilogy which began with The Commitments and The Snapper . Jimmy Rabitte Sr seeks refuge from the vicissitudes of unemployment by joining a friend in running a fish-and-chip van.

The Commitments

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307833089
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Commitments written by Roddy Doyle and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a paradoxical passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and a mission—to bring Soul to Dublin. Doyle writes about the band with a fan's enthusiasm and about Dublin with a native's cheerful knowingness. His book captures all the shadings of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism—ans the redeeming, exhilarating joy of making music. The Commitments is 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.

The Snapper

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409046486
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Snapper written by Roddy Doyle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon's child? By the bestselling author of The Commitments, now a long-running West End stage show. 'Unstoppable fun. A big-hearted, big-night out' The Times

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140233902
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha written by Roddy Doyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, lepers, and jumping to the bottom of the sea. But why didn't anyone help him when Charles Leavy had been going to kill him? Why do his ma and da argue so much, but act like everything is fine? Paddy sees everything, but he understands less and less. Hilarious and poignant, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the triumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of a young boy and his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, confusion and love.

A Star Called Henry

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307375382
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Star Called Henry written by Roddy Doyle and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical novel like none before it, A Star Called Henry has marked a new chapter in Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's writing. A subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism, at its centre a passionate and unforgettable love story, this novel is a triumphant work of fiction. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, charming, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At fourteen, already six foot two, Henry's in the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, fighting for freedom. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian, and, soon, a killer. With his father's wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike, a lover.

Oh, Play That Thing

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368971
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Oh, Play That Thing written by Roddy Doyle and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, lands on his feet. After the 1916 Rebellion, Henry Smart is running from the Republicans for whom he committed murder and mayhem. Lying to the immigration officer, avoiding Irish eyes that might recognise him, hiding the photograph of himself with his wife because it shows a gun across his lap, he throws his passport into the river and forges a new identity. He's a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America... The Depression is sending folks to ride the rails in search of a new life and new hope, and all trains lead to Chicago. As Henry’s past tries to catch up with him, he takes off on a journey to the great port, where music is everywhere. Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.

The Dead Republic

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101190094
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Dead Republic written by Roddy Doyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Star Called Henry Watch for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017 Henry Smart is back. It is 1946, and Henry has crawled into the desert of Utah's Monument Valley to die. He's stumbled onto a film set though, and ends up in Hollywood collaborating with John Ford on a script based on his life. Eventually, Henry finds himself back in Ireland, where he becomes a custodian, and meets up with a woman who may or may not be his long-lost wife. After being injured in a political bombing in Dublin, the secret of his rebel past comes out, and Henry is a national hero. Or are his troubles just beginning? Raucous, colorful, and epic, The Dead Republic is the magnificent final act in the life of one of Doyle's most unforgettable characters.

Paula Spencer

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368955
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Paula Spencer written by Roddy Doyle and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roddy Doyle returns to Paula Spencer (“One of Doyle’s finest creations” – Toronto Star), the beloved heroine of the bestselling The Woman Who Walked into Doors, with spectacular results. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula’s forty-eighth birthday. She hasn’t had a drink for four months and five days. Having outlived an abusive husband and father, Paula and her four children are now struggling to live their adult lives, with two of the kids balancing their own addictions. Knowing how close she always is to the edge, Paula rebuilds her life slowly, taking pride in the things she accomplishes, helped sometimes by the lists she makes to plan for the future. As she goes about her daily routine working as a cleaning woman, and cooking for her two children still at home, she re-establishes connections with her two sisters, her mother and grandchildren, expanding her world. She discovers the latest music, the Internet and text-messaging, treats herself to Italian coffees, and gradually ventures beyond her house, where she’s always felt most comfortable. As Paula thinks of herself, “She’s a new-old woman, learning how to live.” Doyle movingly depicts a woman, both strong and fragile, fighting back and finally equipped to be a mother to her children – but now that they’re mostly grown up, is it too late? Doyle’s fans and new readers alike will root for Paula to stay clean and find a little healing for herself and her children, amidst the threat that it may all go wrong.

The Guts

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448182425
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Guts written by Roddy Doyle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 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. 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. This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. Includes the short story Jimmy Jazz

Smile

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224463
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Smile written by Roddy Doyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past. "It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." -- npr.org “The closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller."– The New York Times Book Review Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt comes over and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name and to remember him from secondary school. His name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes, too, the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories—of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as the man who would say the unsayable on the radio. But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular brother, that Victor cannot control and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity. Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humor, the superb evocation of adolescence, but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to reevaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.

Rory & Ita

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099449226
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Rory & Ita written by Roddy Doyle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the author's parents' lives - largely in their own words. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods. Through their eyes, we see the intensely Catholic society of their youth being transformed into the vibrant, modern Ireland. This is the author's first non-fiction book.

Two Pints

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345807685
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Two Pints written by Roddy Doyle and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss… They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids’ pets, their football teams and – this being Ireland in 2011–12 –about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queen’s visit. But these men are not parochial or small-minded; one of them knows where to find the missing Colonel Gaddafi (he’s working as a cleaner at Dublin Airport); they worry about Greek debt, the IMF and the bondholders ( whatever they might be); in their fashion, they mourn the deaths of Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Davy Jones and Robin Gibb; and they ask each other the really important questions like ‘Would you ever let yourself be digitally enhanced?’ Inspired by a year’s worth of news, Two Pints distils the essence of Roddy Doyle’s comic genius. This book shares the concision of a collection of poems, and the timing of a virtuoso comedian.

Brownbread and War

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140231151
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Brownbread and War written by Roddy Doyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, two plays set in the north Dublin suburb of Barrytown Watch for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017 From novelist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle come these two colorful plays. both set in the North Dublin suburb of Barrytown. In Brownbread, three young men kidnap a bishop but soon come to realize--when the U.S. Marines invade--that their brilliant adventure is nothing more than a colossal mistake. War is set at the Hiker's Rest, a pub where two trivia addicts meet every month to answer questions posed by Denis trhe quizmaster who hates wrong answers and shoots to kill. These earthy, exuberant works show why The New York Times Book Review says Doyle's "versatility and brio...may shock the neighbors, but...you can't take your eyes off him."

High Society

Author : Ben Elton
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448167507
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book High Society written by Ben Elton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war on drugs has been lost but for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From pop stars and princes to crack whores and street kids. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime. HIGH SOCIETY is a story or rather a collection of interconnected stories that takes the reader on a hilarious, heart breaking and terrifying journey through the kaleidoscope world that the law has created and from which the law offers no protection.

A Greyhound of a Girl

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 161312418X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A Greyhound of a Girl written by Roddy Doyle and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary O’Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Granny is dying. But Granny can’t let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in Mary’s street with a message for her Granny, Mary gets pulled into an unlikely adventure. The woman is the ghost of Granny’s own mother, who has come to help her daughter say good-bye to her loved ones and guide her safely out of this world. She needs the help of Mary and her mother, Scarlett, who embark on a road trip to the past. Four generations of women travel on a midnight car journey. One of them is dead, one of them is dying, one of them is driving, and one of them is just starting out. Praise for A Greyhound of a Girl STARRED REVIEW “A warm, witty, exquisitely nuanced multigenerational story.” –Kirkus Reviews, starred review STARRED REVIEW “This elegantly constructed yet beautifully simple story, set in Ireland and spun with affection by Booker Prize–winner Doyle, will be something different for YA readers. These four lilting voices will linger long after the book is closed.” –Booklist, starred review STARRED REVIEW "Written mostly in dialogue, at which Doyle excels, and populated with a charming foursome of Irish women, this lovely tale is as much about overcoming the fear of death as it is about death itself." –Publishers Weekly, starred review "In this moving and artfully structured ghost tale, four generations of Irish women come together. A big part of the pleasure here is the rhythm of the language and the contrasting voices of the generations. Any opportunity to read it aloud would be a treat." –Horn Book "For children grieving the death of a parent or grandparent, this book provides comfort." –Library Media Connection Award: Capitol Choices 2013 - Noteworthy Titles for Children and Teens Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Choices 2013 list - Young Adult Fiction USBBY Outstanding International Books List 2013

The Rover Adventures

Author : Roddy Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781407144825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book The Rover Adventures written by Roddy Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special edition includes The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas and The Meanwhile Adventures. Join Rover the wonder-dog and the eccentric but lovable Mack family as they get into one madcap adventure after the other! The poo is about to hit the shoe... "Riotously funny" The Times "Packed full of bizarre humour, imagination and a whole lot of poo..." Bookseller "Brilliant" Irish Independent