- Patients, Families, Cancer, Working class
"The man who invented the Commitments back in the 1980s is now 47, with a loving wife, 4 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 online for their resurrected singles and albums.
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Classical in form, effortless, spare and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Jonathan Cape Ltd, Vintage Canada
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780143126096
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