Roddy Doyle: Oh, Play That Thing
Oh, Play That Thing
Buch
- Vintage Publishing, 09/2005
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099477655
- Bestellnummer: 2158209
- Umfang: 384 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2005
- Gewicht: 256 g
- Maße: 197 x 129 mm
- Stärke: 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.9.2005
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Kurzbeschreibung
Henry der Held ist der IRA glücklich entkommen und flieht erst nach New York, dann nach Chicago. Eine wilde Stadt - es herrscht die Prohibition. Hier entdeckt Henry eine neue Musik für sich, lebendige, leidenschaftliche und fröhliche Musik, gespielt von einem Mann namens Louis Armstrong. The sequel to A Star Called Henry, the second volume in Roddy Doyle's epic trilogy about Henry Smart and the making of modern Ireland.Beschreibung
It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. 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 to leave, 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.
Klappentext
He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.Biografie
Roddy Doyle, geb. 1958 in Dublin, ist einer der bekanntesten Vertreter der neueren irischen Literatur. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und drei Kindern in Dublin.
Roddy Doyle
Oh, Play That Thing
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