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Roddy Doyle, author of The Guts

Here’s why Irish author Roddy Doyle revisited his characters from The Commitments

Arts, Culture & Media

Roddy Doyle made a splash in the mid-1980s with his first novel, The Commitments. He then took those characters on two more journeys with The Snapper and then The Van. Afterwards, he put them on a shelf for more than 20 years. But Ireland’s recent economic crisis brought him back to the world of Jimmy Rabbitte’s Dublin in a new novel called The Guts.

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