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A Star Called Henry (1999) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. It is Vol. 1 of The Last Roundup series. The second installment of the series, Oh, Play That Thing!, was published in...


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A STAR CALLED HENRY.(Review)
07/12/1999: 391 words, approx. 1 pages
Roddy Doyle. Viking, $23.95 (352p) ISBN 0-670-88757-9 Doyle just gets better and better. After the touching hijinks of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and the poignantly powerful The Woman Who Walked into Walls, he has embarked on nothing less than a trilogy...
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A Star Called Henry.(Review) (book review)
03/01/2000: 567 words, approx. 2 pages
By Roddy Doyle; Viking Press; 343 pages; $25 Roddy Doyle is quite probably Ireland's most famous living writer. He has published six books to date, including a Booker prizewinner. All three novels that form the Barrytown Trilogy have been made into films--The...
 


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Critical Review by Floyd Skloot
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In the following review, Skloot applauds the historical insight Doyle provides in A Star Called Henry, the first of a projected trilogy set in nineteenth-century Ireland.
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Critical Review by Paul Elie
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In the following review, Elie commends Doyle's prose in A Star Called Henry but notes that the novel's characterizations seem superficial and less than memorable.
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Critical Review by Jonathan Levi
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In the following review, Levi compliments A Star Called Henry but argues that the novel is predictable and less edgy than Doyle's earlier work.
 


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