# The Commitments

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- Book: [The Commitments](https://www.bookquiver.com/roddy-doyle/the-commitments) ([The Commitments.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/roddy-doyle/the-commitments.md))
- Authors: [Roddy Doyle](https://www.bookquiver.com/roddy-doyle)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-174-1
- Pages: 176
- Published: 1989-07-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths...