The Guts

DOYLE, Roddy

ISBN 10: 0224098322 / ISBN 13: 9780224098328

Published by Cape, U.K., 2013

About this Item

One of the things my father taught me was this: if you're going to do a thing, do it properly. I've ranted before in these listings about how it makes my brain burn to see an author "sign" a book with a meaningless squiggle that has a scant similarity to anything in the English alphabet, and is certainly not recognizable as their name. And yes, I know that some people's actual signature is a meaningless squiggle, but if an author is making a copy of their book special by adding their signature to it, they could at least make an attempt to do it properly and create a squiggle that bears some relation to their name. This author signed first printing of Roddy Doyle's sequel to his highly successful debut novel, "The Commitments", carries his signature (if you can call it that - more like some random marks on the paper) on the title page. It's a fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 001899

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Guts
• Publisher: Cape, U.K.
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224098322
• ISBN 13: 9780224098328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 – his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. 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. He is reunited with his long-lost brother and learns to play the trumpet…This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyle’s four middle-aged men at Ireland’s hottest rock festival watching Jimmy’s son Marvin’s band Moanin’ At Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called ‘I’m Going to Hell’ that apparently hasn’t been heard since 1932…Why? You’ll have to read The Guts to find out.Winner of the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year

About the Author

RODDY DOYLE is the author of nine acclaimed novels; two short story collections; and Rory and Ita, a memoir about his parents. In 1993 he won the Booker Prize for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He lives in Dublin.