The Guts: A Novel

The Guts: A Novel

<b>Jimmy Rabbitte of <i>The Commitments </i>returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author</b><br><br>Full of the great joy in storytelling that characterizes Roddy Doyle’s novels, <i>The Guts </i>catches up with Jimmy Rabbitte—the man who in the 1980s formed the Commitments, a band composed of working-class Irish youths whose mission was to bring soul music to Dublin. Jimmy is now<br>forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids . . . and colon cancer. The news leaves him shattered and frightened—he isn’t dying, he thinks, but he might be. As he battles his illness while running a small music business, he runs into former bandmates, reunites with his brother, and decides to live more in the moment. <i>The Guts </i>is a warm, funny novel about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life.