The Commitments [Paperback]

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.Roddy Doyle is the author of eleven novels, two collections of stories, two books of dialogues andRory & Ita, a memoir of his parents. He has written seven books for children and has contributed to a variety of publications includingThe New Yorker,McSweeney’s,Metro Eireannand several anthologies. He won the Booker Prize in 1993, forPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.US