 First edition | |
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 2013 |
| Publication place | Ireland |
| Media type | Printhardback |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 0224098322 |
| Preceded by | The Barrytown Trilogy |
The Guts is a 2013 novel byIrish writerRoddy Doyle. The novel returns to Barrytown where Jimmy Rabbitte, Outspan, and Imelda are 30 years older and have all changed – but not all that much.
Jimmy Rabbitte is back with some old friends, but time has moved on for all of them. The man who created the soul band,The Commitments, is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four children, and bowel cancer. He is not dying, he thinks, but he might be.[1][2]
The Guts was named Novel of the Year at the 2013Irish Book Awards in November.[3][4]