by Roddy Doyle · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099477655
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«Oh, Play That Thing» is the historical novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Vintage in paperback (384 pages, in English).
In 1924 New York, Henry Smart, fled from Dublin, hides liquor for speakeasies behind a billboard until gangsters notice him. He flees to Chicago, where Louis Armstrong's jazz envelops everything. Armstrong, trapped by the color of his skin, needs a white man and chooses Henry.
Second novel of Roddy Doyle's The Last Roundup trilogy, continuation of the saga A Star Called Henry.
Intended for fans of historical fiction and jazz, with interest in Irish culture and in the New York and Chicago of the 1920s.
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.
