by Roddy Doyle · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749399900
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«The Van» is Roddy Doyle's comic novel, published by Minerva in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed; his friend Bimbo has just been fired. With no options, they buy an old fast-food van and set up a business in 1990s Dublin, with hilarious results that don't always go as planned. A story about male friendship, unemployment and the Irish working class.
Third installment of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy, after The Commitments and The Snapper. Finalist for the Booker Prize in 1991.
For readers of contemporary Irish fiction and fans of Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy.
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.
