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Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is currently forty-seven, with a loving better half, four kids...and bowel cancer. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he could be. Jimmy still enjoys his music, and he still loves to hustle - his new thing is finding old bands and then locating the people who treasured them enough to pay money for his or her resurrected singles and albums. On his course through Dublin he satisfies two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is most likely terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited along with his long-lost brother and learns to learn the trumpet.... This warm, funny novel is about companionship and family, about facing loss of life and opting for life. It climaxes in another of the fantastic passages in Roddy Doyle's fiction: four middle-aged men at Ireland's most popular rock festival watching Jimmy's son Marvin's strap Moanin' at Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and participating in a track called 'I'm Likely to Hell' that evidently hasn't been been told since 1932.... Why? You need to listen to The Guts to learn.
