He won the Booker Prize in 1993, for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He has written children's books and has contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Metro Eireann, and several anthologies. Roddy Doyle is the author of several novels, two collections of stories, two books of dialogues, and Rory & Ita, a memoir of his parents. "A contender for the funniest debut of the year.young, feisty, funky, rude, unpretentious and great fun" - Time Out His book captures all the nuances of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism-and the redeeming, thrilling joy of making music. Doyle writes about the band with the enthusiasm of a fan and about Dublin with the joyful knowingness of a native. The Commitments: a group of unknown, working-class Irish youths with a love for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and a goal-to bring Soul to Dublin. The Commitments is one of the most engaging and believable novels about rocknroll ever written, a book whose brashness and originality have won it mainstream acclaim and underground cachet. Listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction, The Commitments (1987) is a contemporary novel by Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy. His book captures all the shadings of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism-ans the redeeming, exhilarating joy of making music.
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