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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 0141800828
ISBN-13: 9780141800820
Sep 1999
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Doyle, Roddy, Last Roundup (New York, N.Y.), V. 1.
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Synopsis
Henry Smart, born into poverty in Ireland, son of a teenage button-maker and a wanted murderer, joins the IRA, and eventually emigrates. Paddy Doyle's historical novel, the first of a projected trilogy about his hero, includes actual people and events.
| Details | | Series: | Doyle, Roddy, Last Roundup (New York, N.Y.), V. 1. |
| Size | | Height: | 7.3 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 5.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"What makes this a notable novel is its passion and savagery....[T]his ferocious story, charged with honesty and laudable anger, is hugely compelling."
Literary Review - Ruth Dudley Edwards (09/19/1999)
"With PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA (1994), he invoked the routine terror and joys of a 10-year-old boy so exhilaratingly that Mr. Doyle began to be overheard at the adults' table. With THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS (1996), a terrifying tale of a battered housewife, Mr. Doyle pulled up a chair. Now, with A STAR CALLED HENRY, the story of a Dublin street urchin who grows up to be a chillingly efficient IRA killer, Mr. Doyle is on the verge of having a table all to himself."
Wall Street Journal - Roddy Doyle (09/10/1999)
"Smart is a throwback to the picaresque heroes of Laurence Sterne and Henry Fielding....A STAR CALLED HENRY is a teeming, hyperrealistic canvas, presented with great cheekiness....Doyle's high-wire act comes with a built-in safety net: where is the reader who can resist the pull of the picturesque Irish?"
Merkin
"Doyle is a writer with tremendous caches of imagination. If there is a feeling of disappointment that accompanies A STAR CALLED HENRY, it comes from the recognition that the ideas Doyle sets up with flair are detonated with predictability....While this could be the stuff of a fine western, it is a bit too teary Irish, a bit too misty soft to match the brilliance of Doyle's masterful PADDY CLARK, HA HA HA."
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