Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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 isnt dying, he thinks, but he might be.
Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle. 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.
This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life.
Includes the short storyJimmy Jazz
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of nine acclaimed novels including the Barrytown Trilogy, two collections of short stories,Rory&Ita,a memoir about his parents, and most recently,Two Pints, a collection of dialogues. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 forPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
