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A Man, A Van, Japan: Two Reviews

The Van; Some Prefer Nettles by Roddy Doyle; Junichiro Tanizaki

November 9, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Van – Roddy Doyle – 4/5 Stars This is the third book of the Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle. The previous books are The Commitments and The Snapper. All three take place in a lower class neighborhood in Dublin, Ireland in the 1980s and spiral around various members of the Rabbitte family, a family who along with being desperately poor and loving, seem to have an endless number of kids coming and going. And like the difference between The Commitments and The Snapper, it’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Junichiro Tanizaki, Roddy Doyle, Some Prefer Nettles, The Van

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:450 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Junichiro Tanizaki, Roddy Doyle, Some Prefer Nettles, The Van ·
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