Oh, Play That Thing
by Roddy Doyle
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0224074784
- ISBN 13
- 9780224074780
- Seller
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Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London, Jonathan Cape. 2004. Paperback "Uncorrected Book Proof" published in advance of the first edition.
The book is in fine condition / as new.
"The sequel to A Star Called Henry, sees our hero, Henry Smart, arrive in New York in 1924. This being Prohibition, Henry ends up bootlegging hooch for the speak-easies of the Lower East Side. But when this catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district, Henry realises it's time to leave. In Chicago, Henry discovers music. Furious, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart."
Synopsis
Praised as “a masterpiece” by the Washington Post , A Star Called Henry introduced the unforgettable Henry Smart and left Roddy Doyle’s innumerable fans clamoring for more. Now, in his first novel set in America, Doyle delivers. Oh, Play That Thing opens with Henry on the run from his Irish Republican paymasters, arriving in New York City in 1924. But in New York, and later Chicago—where he meets a man playing wild, happy music called Louis Armstrong—Henry finds he cannot escape his past. A highly entertaining cross-country epic and a magnificent follow-up to A Star Called Henry , this prodigious, energetic, sexy novel is another Roddy Doyle triumph.
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- Bookseller
- Anubis Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- F60028
- Title
- Oh, Play That Thing
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uncorrect Proof
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0224074784
- ISBN 13
- 9780224074780
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2004
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- Fiction;
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