The Snapper: 2 (Barrytown Trilogy) - Softcover

Doyle, Roddy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140171673 ISBN 13: 9780140171679

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Jimmy Sr [is] a wonderful mixture of obscene bluster and boozy sentimentality. . . . He's intensely real, and the novel comes vividly alive as he begins to understand that he can't control the feisty Sharon."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Few novels depict parent-child relationships . . . better than this one, and few men could write sensitively about pregnancy. Don't pass up this novel."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Very, very funny . . . The most amazing account of a pregnancy ever written."
--Maeve Binchy

Book Description:

Sharon Rabbitte is expecting a baby, but as her pregnancy forces the ramshackle Rabbitte family to pull together, will she reveal who is the father?

By the bestselling author of The Commitments, now a long-running West End stage show.

'The musical we've been waiting for... So good I almost wept' Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140171673
• ISBN 13: 9780140171679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224