Great book. Very funny, as I recall. Was 18 when it came out, loved it but not as much as The Commitments. Suspect that now I’m older it would be the other way round… Trying to remember if I ever read The Snapper, not sure I did
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991, the third novel in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy follows two old friends working in a fast-food van against the backdrop of the 1990 football World Cup