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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.
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.
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"The words crackle and fizz - a dazzling evocation of the Jazz Age... Magical and marvellous" (Independent on Sunday)
"A virtuoso of the sentence...Doyle wonderfully recreates a world of flophouses and speakeasies, flappers and bootleggers" (Guardian)
"Doyle's performance is, again, extraordinary for the richness of allusion, the facility with which history is dovetailed with invention, the energy of the prose" (Daily Telegraph)
"Brilliantly imagined... Utterly magnificent, the finest work he has done" (Sunday Tribune)
"Kicks off at a furious lick and just gets faster, hotter, louder. Hugely, unremittingly entertaining" (Scotsman)
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"A virtuoso of the sentence...Doyle wonderfully recreates a world of flophouses and speakeasies, flappers and bootleggers" (Guardian)
"Doyle's performance is, again, extraordinary for the richness of allusion, the facility with which history is dovetailed with invention, the energy of the prose" (Daily Telegraph)
"Brilliantly imagined... Utterly magnificent, the finest work he has done" (Sunday Tribune)
"Kicks off at a furious lick and just gets faster, hotter, louder. Hugely, unremittingly entertaining" (Scotsman)
In the sequel to A Star Called Henry, our hero becomes entangled in 1920s Chicago and all that comes with it: mobsters, speakeasies and Louis Armstrong.
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- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0099477653
- ISBN 13 9780099477655
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine384
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In the sequel to A Star Called Henry, our hero becomes entangled in 1920s Chicago and all that comes with it- mobsters, speakeasies and Louis Armstrong.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. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780099477655
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