by Roddy Doyle · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099284482
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«A Star Called Henry» is the historical novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Random House UK in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Henry Smart grows up in the slums of Dublin at the beginning of the twentieth century. Son of a one-legged brothel doorman, he survives by stealing and begging. At fourteen he joins the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising of 1916 and becomes a republican legend among Michael Collins's men.
First installment of the The Last Roundup trilogy. The novel was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2001.
A novel for readers of historical fiction interested in twentieth-century Dublin and the struggle for Irish independence.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
