The Guts Author:Roddy Doyle Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize?winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha — Watch for Roddy Doyle?s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017 — Full of the great joy in storytelling that characterizes Roddy Doyle?s novels, The Guts catches up with Jimmy Rabbitte?the man who in the 1980s f... more »ormed the Commitments, a band composed of working-class Irish youths whose mission was to bring soul music to Dublin. Jimmy is now
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. The Guts is a warm, funny novel about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life.« less