THE GUTS

Book ID/图书代码： 03540013B62123

English Summary/英文概要： Jimmy Rabbitte is back.

The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... and bowel cancer. He isn’t dying, he thinks, but he might be.

Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle – his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments – Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his long-lost brother and learns to play the trumpet…

This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyle’s fiction: four middle-aged men at Ireland’s hottest rock festival watching Jimmy’s son Marvin’s band Moanin’ At Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called ‘I’m Going to Hell’ that apparently hasn’t been heard since 1932…

Why? You’ll have to read The Guts to find out.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 吉米·拉比特强势回归。这位八十年代缔造“承诺乐队”的传奇人物，如今四十七岁，虽已拥有贤妻四子，却仍与肠癌抗争。他自认虽未走到生命尽头，但时日无多。吉米依然深爱着音乐，依旧热衷于奔波打拼。在都柏林街头，他偶遇两位乐队成员——身患绝症的奥特潘，以及颜值不减当年的伊梅尔达·奎克。这部温暖诙谐的小说，讲述着关于友情与亲情的故事，关于直面死亡却选择继续生活的抉择。附收录短篇小说《吉米爵士》(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况："A visceral tragicomedy - as raw and as funny as anything [Doyle’s] written." -- Olivia Cole GQ "Remarkable, relevant and, surprisingly for a book that’s ostensibly about cancer, joyful." -- Kevin Maher The Times "Life-affirming and trimphant" Irish Post "A fond, comic treat." Sunday Times "This is Doyle back in Barrytown and on top form, especially at the festival which closes a glorious book." -- Harry Ritchie Daily Mail

About the Author/作者介绍： Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van, two collections of short stories, Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents, and most recently, The Guts. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

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