Roddy Doyle
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.93 | 7002 Users | 266 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2) |
| Author | : | Roddy Doyle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by Penguin Books (first published 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Humor. Novels. Contemporary |
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The CommitmentsWatch for Roddy Doyle's new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017
Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried, living at home, working in a grocery store, and keeping the father's identity a secret. Her own father, Jimmy Sr., is shocked by the news. Her mother says very little. Her friends and neighbors all want to know whose "snapper" Sharon is carrying.In his sparkling second novel, Roddy Doyle observes the progression of Sharon's pregnancy and its impact on the Rabbitte family--especially on Jimmy Sr.--with wit, candor, and surprising authenticity.
Details Books As The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2)
| Original Title: | The Snapper |
| ISBN: | 0140171673 (ISBN13: 9780140171679) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Barrytown Trilogy #2 |
| Setting: | Barrytown(Ireland) |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 7002 Users | 266 ReviewsWrite-Up Based On Books The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2)
This novel, the second in the Barrytown Trilogy, and the follow up to probably Doyle's most famous book, The Commitments, was a real treat for me. Jimmy Rabbitte Junior, the driving force behind the first novel reappears in the book, but he plays a minor role, taking a back seat while we are introduced to his family, mum and dad, Veronica and Jimmy Senior, big sister Sharon, brothers Leslie and Darren, and little sisters, twins Linda and Tracy. The fact that I can rattle of the family's namesLike a 3.8, rounded up. Not quite as entertaining as its predecessor, The Snapper is still a good read. As in The Commitments, the plot is unraveled via the brisk dialogue and the action takes place within a working-class neighborhood; unlike The Commitments, the author takes his readers deep into Barrytown life and more specifically inside the Rabbitte home. Daughter Sharon Rabbitte, aged 20, is pregnant, and is keeping mum on the identity of the father, for reasons she doesn't care to discuss
I wasnt sure I was going to love the second book in the Barrytown trilogy as much as the first, with the emphasis not being on music this time, but I neednt have worried. Doyles writing is so good that he brings the humanity out of any situation. His characters are all living, breathing people; even the ones who are only in the book for a page or two. I had a slight issue with a decision made by the main character on the final page of the book, but Im not docking a star for that. Call it 4.5
It was okay. A relaxing read for a lazy Sunday afternoon with some time to spare and a way to not think about anything serious. That's what I thought.An Irish family, the Rabbittes, have to work around the pregnancy of the oldest daughter, a new dog, and how everyone adapts to the situation. The dad is the numero uno character: highly lovable and really funny. It is a busy family with neighbors and friends dropping in enhancing the craziness and mayhem around the daughter who refuse to make the
Not bad. The only issue I have is that at the very end, yes, the baby is born, but the Mother was drunk and getting smashed every weekend, so how was this baby even there? alive and existent? I know this is part of the Barrytown collection,but that mean in another book we find out the baby was deformed or mentally challenged? I don't know. What I do know is that I liked the father character. Jimmy Sr is interesting, and I spent a lot of the book trying to figure him out. but I'm sick and sleepy
As much as I liked The Commitments , the first novel in Roddy Doyles Barrytown Trilogy, The Snapper book two is much more satisfying. Its just as funny and profane, but it has more emotional depth, an amusing if troubling mystery and characters who feel alive and authentic.It focuses on Sharon Rabbitte, the 20-year-old sister of the Commitments manager, Jimmy. I remember meeting her briefly in the first book, when Jimmys friend Deco complimented her as she passed him in the Rabbittes North
Ask anyone? I'm tough.So when I tell you this book caused me to cry, it surely carries some weight.They were real tears too, albeit of laughter. Salty streams of mirth coursing down my cheeks every few pages and causing me great embarrassment and endangering my manly image.The first Roddy Doyle book I read annoyed me. With his absence of quotation marks I couldn't work out what was dialogue and what was merely thought. Plus, it wasn't a very happy book.That style continues with this book, but as
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