Oh, Play That Thing (E-Book, EPUB)
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ISBN/EAN: 9781407017938
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 384 S., 1.27 MB
Erschienen am
04.09.2008
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
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 and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America...Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music.Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, awhiteman, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of nine acclaimed novels including the Barrytown Trilogy, two collections of short stories,Rory&Ita,a memoir about his parents,Two Pints,a collection of dialogues, and most recently,The Guts,which saw the return of Jimmy Rabbitte fromThe Commitments. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 forPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
The sequel to A Star Called Henry, the second volume in Roddy Doyle's epic trilogy about Henry Smart and the making of modern Ireland.
