This trio of comic novels depicts daily life in working-class Dublin. THE COMMITMENTS, which chronicles the misadventures of an Irish R&B band, was made into a highly popular movie. THE SNAPPER is about Sharon Rabbitte, pregnant with a baby whose father`s name she won`t reveal. THE VAN is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr.--Shannon`s father--and his best friend Bimbo, who buy an old fish-and-chips van and go into business in the Dublin of the 1990s.