The Guts Av Roddy Doyle

<p><b>Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award</b><br><br><b>Jimmy Rabbitte is back.<br></b><br>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.<br><br>Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle. 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. <br><br>This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life.<br><br><b>Includes the short story <i>Jimmy Jazz</i></b></p>