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| Title | : | The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2) |
| Author | : | Roddy Doyle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by Penguin Books (first published 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Humor. Novels. Contemporary |
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments Watch for Roddy Doyle's new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017 Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried, living at home, working in a grocery store, and keeping the father's identity a secret. Her own father, Jimmy Sr., is shocked by the news. Her mother says very little. Her friends and neighbors all want to know whose "snapper" Sharon is carrying.In his sparkling second novel, Roddy Doyle observes the progression of Sharon's pregnancy and its impact on the Rabbitte family--especially on Jimmy Sr.--with wit, candor, and surprising authenticity.Declare Books In Pursuance Of The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2)
| Original Title: | The Snapper |
| ISBN: | 0140171673 (ISBN13: 9780140171679) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Barrytown Trilogy #2 |
| Setting: | Barrytown(Ireland) |
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Ask anyone? I'm tough.So when I tell you this book caused me to cry, it surely carries some weight.They were real tears too, albeit of laughter. Salty streams of mirth coursing down my cheeks every few pages and causing me great embarrassment and endangering my manly image.The first Roddy Doyle book I read annoyed me. With his absence of quotation marks I couldn't work out what was dialogue and what was merely thought. Plus, it wasn't a very happy book.That style continues with this book, but asFor me, more than anything, this is a book about family and above all fatherly love. I love Jimmy Rabbitte's affection for his daughter Sharon who becomes pregnant. Sharon's pregnancy is the result of a drunken encounter with an older neighborhood in the parking lot of a party. These days this would be considered rape because an intoxicated person is considered incapable of consenting to sex. I have used this film in a class I teach and interestingly the young students all recognize it as such,
Not bad. The only issue I have is that at the very end, yes, the baby is born, but the Mother was drunk and getting smashed every weekend, so how was this baby even there? alive and existent? I know this is part of the Barrytown collection,but that mean in another book we find out the baby was deformed or mentally challenged? I don't know. What I do know is that I liked the father character. Jimmy Sr is interesting, and I spent a lot of the book trying to figure him out. but I'm sick and sleepy
This book is almost totally dialogue, hilarious dialogue. Back with the Rabbitte clan after The Commitmentsand they are in fine form Jimmy is a DJ, Les is no where to be found, the twins are irritating as always, Darren is sweet and enthusiastic and Sharon is in a spot of trouble. This book focuses on Sharon and Jimmy Rabbitte Sr. I love Jimmy Rabbitte Sr, he is is hilarious the whole way through his reactions are never what you expect and always entertaining. No matter what important matter is
I loved this book. I think it is the strongest of the three books that compile the fascinating Barrytown Trilogy. The narrative never gets bogged down, it sweeps along with a pace and vigor I would love to emulate in my own fiction. There is not a spare scene or extra word in the whole book and that is quite a feat for an Irish writer. I get tired of the constant father son relationships in so much of our fiction, it was truly refreshing to show a father daughter relationship in such a tender,
Like Juno, but without the annoying hipster music and with lots of drunk Irish people yelling at each other.This was a fun read. You know I embarrassed myself a few times by laughing out loud on the subway. This story chronicles a young, single, Irish girl from a blue-collar Dublin family who finds herself pregnant. She won't reveal who the father is. Despite the Lifetime-movie setup, this book is hardly melodramatic. It's a funny, lighthearted look at pregnancy. The dialect and conversations
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