Work
Doyle's novels are marked by heavy use of dialog between characters, with little description or exposition. His work is largely set in Ireland, with early books focusing on working-class Dubliners and later books examining larger questions of Irish history.
Doyle's first three novels, The Commitments(1987), The Snapper (1990) and The Van (1991) comprise The Barrytown Trilogy, a trilogy centered around the Rabbitte family. All three novels were made into successful films, starting with The Commitments in 1991, about a group of Dublin teenagers who decide to form a soul band.
In 1993, Doyle published Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize, which showed the world as described, understood and misunderstood by a ten-year-old Dubliner.
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