A Star Called Henry

Roddy Doyle

За особеностите на екземпляра

Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Здраво книжно тяло, без забележки в текста.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр. - в това състояние и цена в този щанд. Други екземпляри от книгата

За изданието

Издателство:: Vintage Books
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 2005 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 343
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Чужда проза
Ширина (мм):: 130
Височина (мм):: 200
ISBN:: 9780099284482

VINTAGE BOOKS ‘DOYLE AT HIS BEST...HIS PORTRAYAL OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY DUBLIN’S DARK SIDE IS MASTERFUL. THERE IS A DICKENSIAN RICHNESS TO LANGUAGE AND CHARACTER’ THE TIMES Born in the Dublin slums of 190t, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and sèttler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he’s out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday, 1916, he’s fourteen years old and already six-foot-two, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year. later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian and a killer. With his father’s wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a Republican legend - one of Michael Collins’ boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike. ‘THIS IS IRELAND’S MOST FAMOUS LIVING WRITER TACKLING ONE OF THE MOST CRUCIAL PERIODS IN ITS HISTORY...A STAR CALLED HENRY HAS ALL THE HALLMARKS OF THE START OF A MAJOR LITERARY PORTRAYAL OF A NATIONAL EXPERIENCE’ GUARDIAN ‘A VIBRANT WORK OF FICTION...IN DOYLE’S AMBIDEXTROUS HANDS, THE MAKING OF MODERN IRELAND GETS A VIGOROUS AND ILLUMINATING RUN-DOWN’ INDEPENDENT VINTAGE U.K. Random House ISBN 978-0-099-28448-2 284482780099 Cover photographs: copyright: Getty; spine: copyright: Science and Society Picture Library. 9780099284482