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RODDY DOYLE
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by Vish Khanna
September 23 – 29, 2004 |
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Acclaimed author Roddy Doyle appears in Guelph this Tuesday to
read from his latest novel, Oh, Play That Thing, at a benefit for
the Guelph Jazz Festival. The Dublin–born Doyle is perhaps best–
known for his first published novel, The Commitments, which
follows a young, working–class, Dubliner as he organizes a soul
band and was turned into a popular film in 1991.
A sequel to his acclaimed A Star Called Henry — which The
Washington Post said was “not only Doyle’s best novel yet; it is a
masterpiece, an extraordinarily entertaining epic” — Oh, Play
That Thing, turns Doyle’s Henry Smart loose on America. Our Irish
hero arrives in New York in 1924 to start a new life but he makes
enemies among the mobsters there, forcing him to hightail it out
of Manhattan with a mobster’s half–sister on his arm.
As Henry’s past tries to catch up with him, he takes off on a
journey to Chicago, where music is everywhere: wild, happy music
played by a man with a trumpet called Louis Armstrong.
Given Doyle’s penchant for incorporating American music in
his books, The Bookshelf has decided to make his appearance a
fundraiser for the Guelph Jazz Festival. Appropriately, a quintet
fronted by local trumpeter Gordon Allen will perform prior to
Doyle’s reading.
RODDY DOYLE
Presented by The Bookshelf
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 7pm
Chalmers United Church
50 Quebec Street, Guelph
Tix: $5
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