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A Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle. Penguin USA: 2000 (paperback). ISBN: 0140296131. 384 pages.
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Hey all you Angela's Ashes fans out there, would you like to read an even g
rittier, even scarier, but every bit as funny story about a young lad growing up in the impoverished streets of Ireland's s
lums?
Then don't overlook Doyle, author of Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha, The Commitments, and The Snapper,
or this, his new novel about a slum boy who, despite the odds, grows up in Dublin. Instead of coming to America like Frank
McCourt, Henry Smart joins the newly formed IRA, just in time for Easter Monday, 1916. Henry takes to terrorism with gusto; he's
never been so well fed, so powerful, or so attractive to the ladies--and considering what he's suffered at the hands of the
incredible cast of characters who populate this book, it's hard to blame him. It's safe to say that you won't find a more
charismatic hero who uses a wooden leg to kill for his country in your reading in this or any other year.
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