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The Guts

Written by: Roddy Doyle
Narrated by: Laurence Kinlan
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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 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 for their resurrected singles and albums.

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. He is reunited with his long-lost brother and learns to play the trumpet....

This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyle’s fiction: four middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock festival watching Jimmy’s son Marvin’s band Moanin' at Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called 'I'm Going to Hell' that apparently hasn't been heard since 1932.... Why? You’ll have to listen to The Guts to find out.

©2013 Roddy Doyle (P)2013 Random House AudioGo Fiction Genre Fiction Ireland
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A Rare Book About Midlife, Marriage and Parenting

One of those rare books that talks about midlife, married life and parenting, and from a male perspective. Laurence Kinlan's narration is so wonderful that I sought other books he has appeared on.

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