Verlag: Vintage Canada, 2005
ISBN 10: 0676976883 ISBN 13: 9780676976885
Anbieter: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, Kanada
Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. paperback / softback.
Verlag: Vintage Canada, 2005
ISBN 10: 0676976883 ISBN 13: 9780676976885
Anbieter: Infinity Books Japan, Tokyo, TKY, Japan
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Roddy Doyle's last novel, A Star Called Henry, was chosen by the The New Yo rk Times Book Review as one of the eleven Best Books of the Year; The Washi ngton Post said it was "not only Doyle's best novel yet; it is a masterpiec e, an extraordinarily entertaining epic." Now Doyle, author of six bestsell ing novels, twice nominated for the Booker Prize and once a winner, turns h is protagonist Henry Smart's rich observation and linguistic acrobatics loo se on America, in an energetic saga full of epic adventures, breathless esc apes, and star-crossed love. Publishers Weekly says "Doyle just gets better and better." Our Irish hero arrives in New York in 1924 to bury himself in the teeming city and start a new life; having escaped Dublin after the 1916 Rebellion, Henry Smart is on the run from the Republicans for whom he committed murder and mayhem. Lying to the immigration officer, avoiding Irish eyes that might recognise him, hiding the photograph of himself with his wife because it shows a gun across his lap, he throws his passport into the river and tries to forge a new identity. He charms his way into the noisy, tough Lower East Side, reads to Puerto Rican cigar makers, hauls bottles for a bootlegger and composes ads on sandwich boards, finally setting up his own business with the intention of making his fortune. But he makes enemies along the way among mobsters such as Johnny No and Fast Olaf. Henry hightails it out of Manhattan with a gun at his back and Fast Olaf's hustler of a hal.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004
ISBN 10: 0676976883 ISBN 13: 9780676976885
Anbieter: Old Goat Books, Waterloo, ON, Kanada
Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Corners curling. A follow up to A Star Called Henry.
Verlag: Vintage Canada, 2005
ISBN 10: 0676976883 ISBN 13: 9780676976885
Anbieter: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Kanada
Paperback. Zustand: New.
Verlag: Vintage Canada, 2005
ISBN 10: 0676976883 ISBN 13: 9780676976885
Anbieter: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, USA
Zustand: New. Book is in NEW condition. 1.15.
Verlag: Vintage Canada, 2005
ISBN 10: 0676976883 ISBN 13: 9780676976885
Anbieter: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Like New. Like New. book.