The Commitments
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The Commitments (1987) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.[2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.
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3 primary books#1 in The Barrytown Trilogy
The Barrytown Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1987 with contributions by Roddy Doyle.
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1 primary book#1 in Jimmy Rabbitte
Jimmy Rabbitte is a 1-book series first released in 1987 with contributions by Roddy Doyle.
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The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van are possibly the funniest and warmest books I know. I love Nick Hornby, but his work is shallow and artificial compared to Doyle's. Roddie Doyle thinks up people - Irish people - so warm, so real, so alive - so contradictory, so foolish that you have to like them. Also, they are very working class. Interesting.
Above all, his dialogues are incomparable. Beautiful and witty and again: realistic.
