The Van

Roddy Doyle

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Vintage
01 October 2014

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'A hilarious and hugely affectionate novel' Independent on Sunday

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

Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck and out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into business...

By the bestselling author of The Commitments and The Snapper, The Van is a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained with ketchup.

By: Roddy Doyle
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9780749399900
ISBN 10: 0749399902
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 October 2014
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

Reviews for The Van

High comedy set in north Dublin, which begins when unemployed Jimmy and his best friend Bimbo buy a decrepit fish-and-chip van. Billed as 'a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained with ketchup', shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. Of it, Dermot Healy, author of Sudden Times wrote: 'I took up The Van one winter's night and was laughing out loud. Doyle's touch in dialogue is masterly but he also has a sort of resoluteness in pursuing the illusion as far as it will go. Into sordidness and on. The chip van of the title is described in intense detail. You can smell the oils, the chips. You can see the grease stuck to the walls. And behind the scenes some sort of fervent sorrow keeps driving the characters. Doyle is really a gifted dissident besides one of those rare things - a natural novelist. (Kirkus UK)