A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1999 • Viking

A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle 

U.S. FIRST EDITION [1999] VIKING

3rd printing.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is in great shape with mild shelf wear; tiny sealed nick to rear panel.  Looks great now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is excellent; looks and reads good as new!

Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story.

From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure. At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's.