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Title: Oh, Play That Thing
Author: Roddy Doyle
Narrator: Christian Conn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-11
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The sequel to A Star Called Henry, sees our hero, Henry Smart, arrive in New York in 1924. This being Prohibition, Henry ends up bootlegging hooch for the speak-easies of the Lower East Side. But when this catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district, Henry realises it's time to leave. In Chicago, Henry discovers music. Furious, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.
Members Reviews:
just like the first volume of the trilogy
Extremely intense, just like the first volume of the trilogy, "A Star Called Henry," which I read and enjoyed, which is why I purchased the second volume. On the one hand, the story is entirely unbelievable, but the verve with which it is told carries you along. The hero, Henry Smart, is kind of a mythological figure who emerges alive, if not unscathed, from very close calls. He becomes Louis Armstrong's pet white man in the middle of the book, which explains its title. Doyle writes vividly, with a good bit of humor. His evocation of the poverty and displacement of the American Depression is more convincing than a lot of Henry Smart's adventures, and a useful reminder of the way things were for quite a few years. If you read the first volume, I don't see how you can resist going on to the second. I'm already on the third!
a disappointment after his previous book about the uprising
a disappointment after his previous book about the uprising. You can only absorb so much satchmo as great an artist as he was.
I love Roddy Doyle
I love Roddy Doyle, and "Henry". But but but, this book was tough to get into and tough to stay with. It often rambled - and then jumped forward or back in time. Closer to stream of consciousness than the tight narrative of Doyle's other books. I'm glad I read it, but wish I had had to work so hard
Read A Star called Henry first!
Book two of the Henry Smart trilogy, as silly and far fetched a good story goes it just gets better!
Worth a read
This was an all-around good read, but not as great as "A Star Called Henry." Also, you have to have read the first book for much of the second to make sense. If you like Roddy Doyle it will still be an interesting read.
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Title: Oh, Play That Thing
Author: Roddy Doyle
Narrator: Christian Conn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-06-11
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
The sequel to A Star Called Henry, sees our hero, Henry Smart, arrive in New York in 1924. This being Prohibition, Henry ends up bootlegging hooch for the speak-easies of the Lower East Side. But when this catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district, Henry realises it's time to leave. In Chicago, Henry discovers music. Furious, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.
Members Reviews:
just like the first volume of the trilogy
Extremely intense, just like the first volume of the trilogy, "A Star Called Henry," which I read and enjoyed, which is why I purchased the second volume. On the one hand, the story is entirely unbelievable, but the verve with which it is told carries you along. The hero, Henry Smart, is kind of a mythological figure who emerges alive, if not unscathed, from very close calls. He becomes Louis Armstrong's pet white man in the middle of the book, which explains its title. Doyle writes vividly, with a good bit of humor. His evocation of the poverty and displacement of the American Depression is more convincing than a lot of Henry Smart's adventures, and a useful reminder of the way things were for quite a few years. If you read the first volume, I don't see how you can resist going on to the second. I'm already on the third!
a disappointment after his previous book about the uprising
a disappointment after his previous book about the uprising. You can only absorb so much satchmo as great an artist as he was.
I love Roddy Doyle
I love Roddy Doyle, and "Henry". But but but, this book was tough to get into and tough to stay with. It often rambled - and then jumped forward or back in time. Closer to stream of consciousness than the tight narrative of Doyle's other books. I'm glad I read it, but wish I had had to work so hard
Read A Star called Henry first!
Book two of the Henry Smart trilogy, as silly and far fetched a good story goes it just gets better!
Worth a read
This was an all-around good read, but not as great as "A Star Called Henry." Also, you have to have read the first book for much of the second to make sense. If you like Roddy Doyle it will still be an interesting read.