Oh, Play That Thing [Signed First Edition]

Roddy Doyle

ISBN 10: 0670033618 / ISBN 13: 9780670033614

Published by Viking, New York, 2004

About this Item

Viking, New York, 2014. First Edition. First printing. Very fine/very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy, opened only for signature. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Smoke-free. Defect-free. Shipped in well padded box. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector.

Seller Inventory # Pig9

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oh, Play That Thing [Signed First Edition]
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670033618
• ISBN 13: 9780670033614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Irish Literature

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.