The Van by Roddy Doyle

Jimmy Rabbitte Senior pulls himself out of a mid-life crisis when he purchases a greasy fish-and-chip van and sells grub to Dublin's drunk and hungry during the heady days of Ireland's triumphs in the World Cup

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The 957th greatest fiction book of all time


This book is on the following lists:

  1. - 4th on The Greatest 20th Century Novels (Waterstone)
  2. - 96th on Waterstone's Books of the Century (LibraryThing)

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Name Binding Sales Rank Lowest New Lowest Used Published
Barrytown Trilogy (0749397365 Hardcover 612116 $798.76 $6.94 1994
The Barrytown Trilogy Paperback 6671984 $6.00 $0.01
The Van Paperback 776113 $7.43 $0.01
'THE BARRYTOWN TRILOGY: ''THE COMMITMENTS'', ''THE SNAPPER'' AND ''THE VAN''' Paperback 2658119 $47.25 $0.01
The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van Hardcover 4578482 $2.95
The Barrytown Trilogy: "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van" Hardcover 1131731 $30.54 $0.01 1992
The van Mass Market Paperback 13533568 $8.90 1997
The Van Hardcover 4298554 $50.77 $2.63 1992
Van Hardcover 14618096 $60.00
The Van Hardcover 12222432 $0.02
The van Paperback 2469846 $6.71
The Van Audible Audio Edition 100052 $11.92 2008
Barrytown Trilogy Paperback 7267823 $8.88 $1.00
The Van (movie tie-in) Paperback 1910985 $58.01 $0.99 1997
The Van: A Novel (The Barrytown Trilogy Book 3) Kindle Edition 1038795 $9.99 1993
The Van Paperback 1596816 $10.21 $1.59 1993
The Barrytown Trilogy Paperback 382467 $5.51 $0.01 1995