A Star Called Henry. Roddy Doyle (First Edition Hardback) 1999

 A STAR CALLED HENRY. By Roddy Doyle (Volume One of THE LAST ROUNDUP)

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores. Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing begging, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At fourteen, already six foot two, Henry's in the General Post Office on easter Monday 1916, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, fighting for freedom. A year later he's ready to die fir Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian and soon, 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.

An historical novel like none before it, A STAR CALLED HENRY marks a new chapter in Roddy Doyle's writing It is a vastly more ambitious book than any he has written before. A subverdive look behind the legend of Irish republicanism, at its centre a passionate love story, this is a triumphant work of fiction.

A FIRST EDITION hardback published in 1999 by Jonathan Cape.

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