- Fiction, Irish Americans, Organized crime, Jazz musicians
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.It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Roddy Doyle
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 377
- Publisher
- BBC Audiobooks America, Random House Publishing Group, Knopf Canada
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407017945
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“I could bury myself in New York.”
Photo: By Christoph Rieger [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons
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