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Language English Publication date 2013 Preceded by The Barrytown Trilogy Genre Fiction Country Republic of Ireland | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publisher Jonathan Cape Pages 336 Originally published 2013 Page count 336 ISBN 0224098322 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Guts is a 2013 novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. The novel returns to Barrytown where Jimmy Rabbitte, Outspan, and Imelda are 30 years older and have all changed – but not all that much.
Contents
Premise
Jimmy Rabbitte is back with some old friends, but time has moved on for all of them. The man who created the soul band, The Commitments, is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four children, and bowel cancer. He is not dying, he thinks, but he might be.
Reception
In November 2013, the novel was named Novel of the Year at the 2013 Irish Book Awards.
References
The Guts (novel) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA