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Title: A STAR CALLED HENRY
By: Roddy Doyle
Format: CD-Audio

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1856866629
ISBN 13: 9781856866620
Publisher: CORNERSTONE
Pub. date: 26 August, 1999
Pages: 360
Description: Born in the slums of Dublin in 1901, Henry has to grow up fast. 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. With a passionate love story at its centre, this fiction work takes a subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism.
Synopsis: Born in the slums of Dublin in 1901, with his father as a one-legged whore-house bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk, he's out robbing, begging, 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. An historical novel like none before it, "A Star Called Henry" marks a new chapter in Roddy Doyle's writing. It is a vastly more ambitious book than any he has written before. Taking a subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism, with a passionate love story at its centre, this is a triumphant work of fiction.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Random House Audiobooks
Returns: Returnable
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