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The Snapper (1990) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle and the second novel in The Barrytown Trilogy.
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Classical in form, contemporary, effortless and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 216
- Publisher
- 10/18, Random House Publishing Group, Krüger, Frankfurt
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- German, French, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780753192603
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First sentence
“-You're wha'? said Jimmy Rabbitte Sr.”
About Roddy Doyle · 1958
Photo: By Christoph Rieger [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
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