A Star Called Henry (Volume One of The Last Roundup) by Roddy Doyle (GT567)

Published 1999: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original black cloth with silver titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 343 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age. (GT567)

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An historical novel like none before it, A Star Called Henry marks a new chapter in Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's writing. It is a vastly more ambitious book than any he has previously written. A subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism, at its centre a passionate love story, this new novel is a triumphant work of fiction.

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, charming, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At fourteen, already six foot two, Henry's in the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, fighting for freedom. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian, and, soon, a killer. With his father's wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike, a lover.


"An imaginative and hilarious comedy that makes sense of the absurd behaviour of a collection of youth trying to form a rock band." -- London Free Press

The Snapper:

"An uproarious dissertation on teenage pregnancy." -- The Edmonton Journal

The Van:

"A novel which is often hilarious, always enthralling and -- this is really the case -- unputdownable." -- Sunday Times.

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