Oh, Play That Thing - Couverture souple

Doyle, Roddy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099484897 ISBN 13 : 9780099484899

Editeur : Vintage, 2005

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of six acclaimed novels. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099484897
• ISBN 13: 9780099484899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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• Personne responsable: non disponible