The Van

Roddy Doyle · 1991 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Laid off and running out of ways to fill a day, Jimmy Rabbitte senior goes into business with his oldest friend Bimbo in a filthy second-hand chip van, timed to the summer Ireland got through to the World Cup quarter-finals. Frying outside pubs at closing time turns two men who have been friends since school into partners, which is not the same arrangement at all. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the last of the Barrytown books.

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  Roddy Doyle · 1990 CE · Novel

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