Oh, Play That Thing

Doyle, Roddy

ISBN 10: 0670033618 / ISBN 13: 9780670033614

Published by Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2004

About this Item

1st US Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookplate on front end page (signature only). $24.95 price present on DJ flap. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 023966

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oh, Play That Thing
• Publisher: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670033618
• ISBN 13: 9780670033614
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Booker Prize Authors

About this title

Synopsis

Henry Smart is on the run. Fleeing from his Irish Republican paymasters, the men for whom he committed murder and mayhem, he has left behind his wife, Miss O'Shea, in a Dublin jail, and his infant daughter. When he lands in America, it's 1924, and New York is the center of the universe. Henry, ever resourceful, a pearl gray fedora parked on his head, has a sandwich board and a hidden stash of hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. When he starts hiring kids to carry boards for him, he catches the attention of the mobsters who run the distrist. It is time to leave, for another, newer America.
In Chicago there is no past waiting to jump on Henry. Music is everywhere, in the streets, in nightclubs, on phonograph records: furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his color, and the mob is in Chicago too: they own every stage - and they own the man up on the stage. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.

About the Author

Roddy Doyle is the author of six previous novels, including a Booker Prize finalist, The Van, and a Booker Prize-winning international bestseller, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. He has also written several screenplays and books for children.