The Commitments
By: Roddy Doyle.
Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. (6)
Series: Barrytown
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1989-07
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780679721741
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Soul musicians -- Fiction; Bands (Music) -- Fiction; Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction
Description: Talk a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths who call themselves The Commitments, give them a paradoxical passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, and a mission -- to bring Soul to Dublin --  and you have the makings of 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. Roddy Doyle, a young Dubliner, writes about the band with a fan's enthusiasm, about his city with a native's cheerful knowingness. His book captures all the shadings of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism - and the redeeming, exhilarating joy of making music.
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