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  • A Star Called Henry

  • By: Roddy Doyle
  • Narrated by: Roddy Doyle
  • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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By: Roddy Doyle
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Born in the slums of Dublin in 1901, his father 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 14, 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. A subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism, at its centre a passionate love story, this is a triumphant work of fiction.

©1999 Roddy Doyle (P)1999 Random House Audiobooks

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"This is a radical departure for Doyle, and a stunning success." (Amazon.co.uk)

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Loved it, Historical novel, Ireland, in the 1920,s , story captured the struggles of its people, through the eyes of Henry Smart.Narrator insightful, , and allows reader to follow, all character,s, that lived in such a politically Violent and oppressive time in History.

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