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Offers a portrait of an adventuresome Irishman named Henry Smart, an IRA assassin and 1916 Easter Rebellion fighter, from his Dublin birth to his adulthood, when he becomes the father of a young rebel.
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The habit of murder becomes a hard one to break; the hero of Roddy Doyle's novel of the Irish War of Independence, like his father before him, kills to order and kills in cold blood. Where his father was simply the one-legged bouncer at a brothel, whose employers used him for any killing that needs to be done, Henry has motives. Growing up on the street, taught his letters by James Connolly, he believes in not just Irish freedom, but workers' revolution. He learns the hard way that his pious middle-class masters do not have this in mind.
A Star Called Henry--passionate, angry, darkly and wildly comic--has something in it to offend everybody. His stirring, deeply anti-romantic, account of the siege of the Dublin Post Office during the Easter Rising is remarkable, but hardly less so is his account of life on the Dublin docks, or Henry's treks around the countryside as one of Michael Collins' hard men, teaching guerrilla warfare to dairy farmers and clerks. The love affair between Henry and his equally blood-thirsty teacher and wife Miss O'Shea is sweet and touching. The first volume of a trilogy, this is a radical departure for Doyle, and a stunning success. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk
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"This is really a masterpiece" (Irish Times)
"This is Ireland's most famous living writer tackling one of the most crucial periods in its history... A Star Called Henry has all the hallmarks of the start of a major literary portrayal of a national experience" (Guardian)
"A vibrant work of fiction - In Doyle's ambidextrous hands, the making of modern Ireland gets a vigorous and illuminating run-down" (Independent)
"Doyle just gets better and better... This is history evoked on an intimate, and yet earth-shaking scale, with a driving narrative that never falters. Maybe the Great American Novel remains to be written, but on the evidence of its first instalment - this is the epic Irish one, created at a high pitch of eloquence" (Publisher's Weekly)
"The energy and full-blooded dialogue of Doyle's creations are as much in evidence here as in the best of his previous work- A Star Called Henry is billed as Volume One of The Last Roundup. It is an exhilarating beginning" (Daily Telegraph)
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Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Like New. Roddy Doyle captivated audiences around the world when Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the 1993 Booker Prize. Doyle followed that success with The Woman Who Walked into Doors, an acclaimed novel with a narrator critics compared to Joyce's Molly Bloom. Now, the finest Irish writer of his generation enchants us once again with A Star Called Henry.With his trademark sharp-edged wit, Roddy Doyle introduces Henry Smart -- adventurer, IRA assassin, and lover. A Star Called Henry takes us through Henry's early years of reckless heroism and adventure, from the courtship of his young mother and one-legged father to his own childhood on the streets of Dublin; from his role as a valiant soldier fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising to that of a young father and rebel.At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a tour de force told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's. Seller Inventory # 9781568958187
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. New York: Viking, 1999. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. As new in an as-new dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A pristine, unread copy. Octavo, 342 pages. Signed by Roddy Doyle on the title page (his name only). Review copy with promotional materials laid in. The first volume in Doyle's "Last Roundup" trilogy, followed by "Oh, Play That Thing" and "The Dead Republic." A fierce, lyrical reimagining of modern Irish history, the novel follows Henry Smart from the slums of Dublin into the heart of the Irish War of Independence. Named one of The New York Times Book Review's five best works of fiction for 1999. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 5400