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A Star Called Henry (1999) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. It is Vol. 1 of The Last Roundup series. The second installment of the series, Oh, Play That Thing, was published in 2004. The third, The Dead Republic, was published in 2010.
1 de ene. de 1999 · At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's.
Su protagonista es un joven llamado Henry Smart, un desheredado que acabará integrándose en las filas del IRA. Son los inicios del siglo XX y al joven Henry le aguardan nuevas y sorprendentes peripecias con el conflicto armado republicano como telón de fondo para la toda la trama.
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...
Born in the slums, raised on the streets, caught up in the fight for a free Ireland at the age of fourteen, Henry Smart is, indisputably, a survivor. A Star Called Henry describes the first twenty years of Henry’s adventure-filled life in early twentieth-century Ireland.
4 de jun. de 2010 · An historical novel like none before it, A Star Called Henry has marked a new chapter in Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's writing. A subversive look behind the legends of Irish...
At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told...
