The Snapper

Doyle, Roddy

ISBN 10: 0140171673 / ISBN 13: 9780140171679

Published by Penguin, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1992

About this Item

1st Edition/1st Printing Penquin softcover. SIGNED by author on a bookplate decal on inside cover. Also includes laid-in the original 1992 review from the New York Times Book review.

Seller Inventory # 007172

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Snapper
• Publisher: Penguin, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140171673
• ISBN 13: 9780140171679
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Booker Prize Authors

About this title

Synopsis

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments
 
Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried, living at home, working in a grocery store, and keeping the father's identity a secret. Her own father, Jimmy Sr., is shocked by the news. Her mother says very little. Her friends and neighbors all want to know whose "snapper" Sharon is carrying.In his sparkling second novel, Roddy Doyle observes the progression of Sharon's pregnancy and its impact on the Rabbitte family—especially on Jimmy Sr.—with wit, candor, and surprising authenticity.

About the Author

Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. His first three novels—The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van—are known as The Barrytown Trilogy. He is also the author of the novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize winner), The Woman Who Walked into Doors, and A Star Called Henry, and a non-fiction book about his parents, Rory & Ita. Doyle has also written for the stage and the screen: the plays Brownbread, War, Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner, and The Woman Who Walked Into Doors; the film adaptations of The Commitments (as co-writer), The Snapper, and The Van; When Brendan Met Trudy (an original screenplay); the four-part television series Family for the BBC; and the television play Hell for Leather. Roddy Doyle has also written the children's books The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, and The Meanwhile Adventures and contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker magazine and several anthologies. He lives in Dublin.