- Fiction, Bands (Music), Soul musicians, Musical fiction
The Commitments (1987) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.[2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.
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- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Heinemann, NA, Krüger, Frankfurt
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780749398019
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