Oh, Play That Thing
$34.28
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2005
Summary
In the sequel to A Star Called Henry, our hero becomes entangled in 1920s Chicago and all that comes with it—mobsters, speakeasies, and Louis Armstrong.
It’s 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099477655 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099477653 |
| Author: | Roddy Doyle |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 266g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 26mm |
| Series: | The Last Roundup : V. 2 |
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The words crackle and fizz - a dazzling evocation of the Jazz Age… Magical and marvellous
“The words crackle and fizz - a dazzling evocation of the Jazz Age… Magical and marvellous” Independent on Sunday “A virtuoso of the sentence…Doyle wonderfully recreates a world of flophouses and speakeasies, flappers and bootleggers” Guardian “Doyle’s performance is, again, extraordinary for the richness of allusion, the facility with which history is dovetailed with invention, the energy of the prose” Daily Telegraph “Brilliantly imagined… Utterly magnificent, the finest work he has done” Sunday Tribune “Kicks off at a furious lick and just gets faster, hotter, louder. Hugely, unremittingly entertaining” Scotsman
About The Author
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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