The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van

Roddy Doyle

ISBN 10: 0436201216 / ISBN 13: 9780436201219

Published by Secker & Warburg, 1992

About this Item

2nd printing (1992). 633pp. Flat SIGNED on title page by the author and also Barrytown Trilogy film series producer Lynda Miles (b.1947). VG/VG copy, binding square and tight, bottom edge a little rubbed and worn, bottom page edge grubby, pages tanned, jacket lightly edge worn, hint of sunning to spine, price-clipped, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Seller Inventory # 003499

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436201216
• ISBN 13: 9780436201219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. "The Commitments" was a major film of 1991, "The Snapper" is currently being filmed and "The Van" was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize.

About the Author

RODDY DOYLE was born in Dublin in 1958. His first novel, The Commitments, was published to great acclaim in 1987 and was made into a very successful film by Alan Parker. The Snapper was published in 1990 and has also been made into a film, directed by Stephen Frears. The Van was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize and made into a film also by Stephen Frears. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which won the Booker Prize in 1993, was the largest-selling winner in the history of the prize and has been published in nineteen languages. His most recent novels are The Woman Who Walked Into Doors and A Star Called Henry.