Oh, Play That Thing: A Novel (The Last Roundup)

Oh, Play That Thing: A Novel (The Last Roundup)

Praised as “a masterpiece” by the <b>Washington Post</b>, <b>A Star Called Henry</b> introduced the unforgettable Henry Smart and left Roddy Doyle’s innumerable fans clamoring for more. Now, in his first novel set in America, Doyle delivers. <b>Oh, Play That Thing</b> opens with Henry on the run from his Irish Republican paymasters, arriving in New York City in 1924. But in New York, and later Chicago—where he meets a man playing wild, happy music called Louis Armstrong—Henry finds he cannot escape his past.<p>A highly entertaining cross-country epic and a magnificent follow-up to <b>A Star Called Henry</b>, this prodigious, energetic, sexy novel is another Roddy Doyle triumph.</p>