×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Members save with free shipping everyday!
See details
See details
37.0
In Stock
Overview
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of Soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel "The Lips" Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name?
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780753192580 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Isis Publishing Ltd |
Publication date: | 12/01/2013 |
Series: | Isis Hardcover |
Edition description: | Large Print |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.30(d) |
About the Author

Roddy Doyle is the author of eleven novels, two collections of stories, two books of dialogues and Rory & Ita, a memoir of his parents. He has written seven books for children and has contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Metro Eireann and several anthologies. He won the Booker Prize in 1993, for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government ...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government
corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his ...
The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading ...
The Chomsky Reader brings together for the first time the political thought of American's leading
dissident intellectual—“arguably the most important intellectual alive” (The New York Times).At the center of practically every major debate over America's role in the world, one ...
Effie Crackalbee (a.k.a. Jane Croy), the loving, daring, and generous protagonist of Crane Spreads Wings, ...
Effie Crackalbee (a.k.a. Jane Croy), the loving, daring, and generous protagonist of Crane Spreads Wings,
is a self-proclaimed T’ai Chi warrior who practices the ancient movements that center her spirit even as she sets out to re-create her life. ...
The award-winning, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about ...
The award-winning, bestselling author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about
feminism today—written as a letter to a friend.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who ...
Award-winning author Dan Fesperman delivers a suspenseful and stunning thriller set in the mysterious and ...
Award-winning author Dan Fesperman delivers a suspenseful and stunning thriller set in the mysterious and
gleaming city of Dubai. Sam Keller, an auditor at a giant pharmaceutical firm, expected a six-hour layover in Dubai. Then his company's corporate security officer ...
News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge, ...
News correspondent Leslie Cockburn has dined with the Cali Cartel, marched with the Khmer Rouge,
hunted down the Black Turban in Afghanistan, pursued the Russian mafia to the Arctic Circle, shared pomegranate sauce with the Ayatollahs, and stopped a small ...
A Washington Post Best Book of the YearAn Oprah.com Best Book of the YearIn 1945, ...
A Washington Post Best Book of the YearAn Oprah.com Best Book of the YearIn 1945,
on the outskirts of Salzburg, American soldiers discover a train filled with unspeakable riches: gold watches and wedding rings, picture frames and Shabbat candlesticks. Jack ...
Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination
of the forces of circumstance on our lives. Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower ...