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| Original Title: | The Snapper |
| ISBN: | 0140171673 (ISBN13: 9780140171679) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Barrytown Trilogy #2 |
| Setting: | Barrytown(Ireland) |
Roddy Doyle
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.93 | 7002 Users | 266 Reviews
Details Containing Books The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2)
| Title | : | The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2) |
| Author | : | Roddy Doyle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First 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 CommitmentsWatch 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.
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Ratings: 3.93 From 7002 Users | 266 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books The Snapper (The Barrytown Trilogy #2)
For 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,What's funnier than unwanted pregnancy? Not much, if you're Roddy Doyle. Sharon, the oldest daughter of the Rabbitte family, is knocked up by a man she won't identify. In the aftermath of the subsequent minor scandal, her family rallies around to support her, each in their own weird way. Mostly, though, this book is about Jimmy Sr., father of the Rabbitte family - an old-fashioned working-class Dubliner who largely just gets drunk and says funny things. It's your typical story of an emotionally
One drunken evening young Sharon gets a kneetrembler outside some scuzzy club from a most inappropriate person and finds herself up the duff. She is then presented with several difficulties, involving the seven major types of embarrassment. When should I tell my folks, when should I tell my best mates, when should I tell the dad. She briefly wonders if the initiatory event might be classed as rape, but dismisses that as they were both plastered. At no point does she even think about termination
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 as
Excellent sparse writing with absolutely cracking dialogue. It's a follow on from The Commitments based on Sharon Rabbitte rather than her brother Jimmy Jr this time.She's pregnant, but who's the father?
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,
There were definitely several very funny moments in this little book. But as others have said, the fact that it is nearly all dialogue, and often feels like a script hastily turned into a novel, made it harder to really get into the story or the characters. There's very little depth to anybody, and almost no physical description of anyone or anything.What we do see of the characters isn't flattering. Sharon, the oldest of Jimmy Rabbitte Sr.'s six children, has just announced that she is
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