Roddy Doyle: Oh, play that thing (2005)
ISBN: 9780099477655
Roddy Doyle: Oh, play that thing (2005)
ISBN: 9780099477655
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It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet.
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ISBN
9780099477655
Author
Roddy Doyle
Pages
376
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE
Date of publication
2005
Format
Book
Language
English
He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time toleave, for another America...Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.