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The Snapper - (Barrytown Trilogy) by Roddy Doyle (Paperback)

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Highlights

  • From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant.
  • About the Author: Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer.
  • 224 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
  • Series Name: Barrytown Trilogy

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About the Book



The Commitments was praised as one of the freshest and funniest first novels in years. In The Snapper, Doyle has produced another brilliant comedy of everyday life in Dublin. A young single girl who shares a room with her sisters endures pregnancy while her family and the whole town wonder who the father is.



Book Synopsis



From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments

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.



Review Quotes




"Jimmy Sr [is] a wonderful mixture of obscene bluster and boozy sentimentality. . . . He's intensely real, and the novel comes vividly alive as he begins to understand that he can't control the feisty Sharon."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Few novels depict parent-child relationships . . . better than this one, and few men could write sensitively about pregnancy. Don't pass up this novel."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Very, very funny . . . The most amazing account of a pregnancy ever written."
--Maeve Binchy



About the Author



Roddy Doyle is an internationally bestselling writer. His first three novels--The Commitments, The Snapper, and the 1991 Booker Prize finalist The Van--are known as The Barrytown Trilogy. He is also the author of the novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize winner), The Woman Who Walked into Doors, and A Star Called Henry, and a non-fiction book about his parents, Rory & Ita. Doyle has also written for the stage and the screen: the plays Brownbread, War, Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner, and The Woman Who Walked Into Doors; the film adaptations of The Commitments (as co-writer), The Snapper, and The Van; When Brendan Met Trudy (an original screenplay); the four-part television series Family for the BBC; and the television play Hell for Leather. Roddy Doyle has also written the children's books The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, and The Meanwhile Adventures and contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker magazine and several anthologies. He lives in Dublin.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.76 Inches (H) x 5.08 Inches (W) x .61 Inches (D)
Weight: .39 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Series Title: Barrytown Trilogy
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Roddy Doyle
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 1992
TCIN: 91285038
UPC: 9780140171679
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-3604
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.61 inches length x 5.08 inches width x 7.76 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.39 pounds
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