by Roddy Doyle · Amber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789050931878
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«De bus» is the humorous novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Amber in paperback (275 pages, in Dutch).
Jimmy Rabbitte senior loses his job in Dublin; his friend Bimbo is also laid off. Together they buy an old fish-and-chips van to set up a mobile food business, dodging health inspectors among night-time customers. Doyle combines humor with a portrait of friendship and the Irish working class.
It is the third installment of the Barrytown trilogy; the original work, «The Van», was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1991, and this Dutch translation was published in 1992.
For readers of contemporary fiction and humor who want to approach the working-class Dublin of the nineties through the eyes of Roddy Doyle.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
