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	Dragons? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oh, yea I am going to get a car when my mother gets back from Korean she is gone for about 3 weeks, and I am home alone for all three.
		Yes I did do things that she didn't like but what choice do I have, it was not like she was going to change anything for me. She loves her parents and family, it is one of the most important things to her and I understand that.
		Oh and the other reason is because, (well its sort of a mix of), she want me to be with someone that she thinks I will be happier with.
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	Books \| Dublin for Chicago
		In Oh, Play That Thing, he ventures away from Ireland for the first time, locating the story in the gutters of New York and the jazz clubs of Chicago, in smalltown Connecticut and the cotton fields of Oklahoma.
		Oh, Play That Thing is the sequel to A Star Called Henry, the high-energy first volume of a promised trilogy called The Round-Up, which saw him move backwards into social history and sideways to take a swipe at the origins of the Irish republican myth.
		Oh, Play That Thing begins where the previous novel ends, with a disillusioned Smart on the run from his former brothers-in-arms, abandoning his wife and baby to start a new life in America.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5019205-99930,00.html (712 words)

	Book Reviews - Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
		Oh, Play That Thing is the second book in a trilogy from Roddy Doyle.
		Roddy Doyle's novel is a tale of immigrants, fls, and outsiders struggling to find a place in America and remaking it in the process.
		Oh, Play That Thing has received mixed reviews with BookPage saying, "Oh, Play That Thing charges along in a suspenseful manner, but not without a fair bit of craft on Doyle's part - not willing to sacrifice poetry for action, the accomplished author instead merges the two."
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /oh_play_that_thing (257 words)

	Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle: Reviews
		Viking is reprinting "A Star Called Henry" to coincide with the release of Oh, Play That Thing.
		Doyle has always written brilliantly about popular music, and the Chicago section of Oh, Play That Thing (the title is from a King Oliver classic) throbs with the syncopation and verve of Chicago's 1920s jazz scene.
		Oh, Play That Thing is a coup of imagination and verve, the equal to A Star Called Henry, and a triumph on its own.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/doyleroddy/ohplaythatthing (1295 words)

	Oh, Play That Thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oh, Play That Thing Review: I enjoyed this book for the most part, in a couple of areas it was a little slow.
		Oh, Play That Thing Review: I read and loved Volume 1 of this trilogy and it inspired me to leave my first ever review on Amazon.
		Oh, Play That Thing Review: After such a brilliant start to his trilogy with 'A Star Called Henry', Doyle disappoints.
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	Oh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Learning Creativity for Children of All Ages : This book was one of the five that I most enjoyed reading to our four children when they were young.
		Its around A4 size and made of non glossy pages containing lots of pictures and illustrations of things that are perfect for little boys for example what is puss and why do some farts make a noise and others don't...
		Very entertaining : I bought this book expecting to find it was another book filled with nothing but writing (which is usually what a book is supposed to have).But this is way cooler than any normal book...
	books.mysic.co.uk /Oh?p=2 (653 words)

	Oh, Play that Thing, 4 Audio-CDs (Roddy Doyle )
		Oh, Play That Thing is a fast-moving picaresque sequel to Roddy Doyle's novel about the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, A Star Called Henry.
		On the run from his former commanders, IRA assassin Henry ends up in the USA and copes indifferently with the gang-dominated New York of the early 1920s, and the worlds of Chicago jazz and the migrant workers of the Depression.
		There's also a strong sense of the changing language of immigrants trying to belong; this is, among other things, the story of how his Irish hero learns to think and speak in the American vein.
	www.tp-books.de /70025-70225-doyle_roddy/info-1856869326/Oh_Play_that_Thing_4_Audio-CDs.html (214 words)

	Powell's Books - Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
		Music is everywhere, in the streets, in nightclubs, on phonograph records: furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong.
		But Oh, Play That Thing is fatally overstuffed and chaotic.
		Oh, Play That Thing tackles nothing less than what America was and what it meant to the surge of post-World War I and Depression-era immigrants."
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0670033618-2 (659 words)

	The New York Times: Premium Archive
		The other star of ''Oh, Play That Thing'' is also a real-life character -- not a gangster but a musician, ''the World's Greatest Trumpet Player,'' no less.
		Henry's adoration of Armstrong's virtuoso trumpet playing provides the book's most exuberant passages, taking us up close to what was becoming a revolution in popular music, as demonstrated by ''the difference between the music when he was there, and the music when he wasn't.
		From this point, ''Oh, Play That Thing'' goes into free fall as the past catches up with Henry and once again he becomes a hunted man. A haunted man too, oppressed by flashbacks to his imprisonment and torture as a Republican rebel.
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	Socialist Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		If the first part of this trilogy, A Star called Henry, was the finest book Roddy Doyle has written to date, then Oh, Play That Thing is surely the bravest, and a worthy follow up.
		The work was still based in Doyle's own city of Dublin, and in a historic period which he was surely familiar with, and in which members of his family had participated.
		Even Armstrong with his growing celebrity, is never allowed to forget his 'inferiority', whether it be from the white moneymen who would own him or the white clubbers who dance to his music.
	www.socialistreview.org.uk /article.php?articlenumber=9129 (707 words)

	oxygen - books - play that thing
		The sequel is Oh Play That Thing which moves Henry out of Ireland and into the Jazz Age.
		Structure and story-wise Oh Play That Thing is all over the place.
		Oh Play That Thing has similarly brilliant dialogue and characters, but as it veers all over America, the focus seems to go out the window.
	www.oxygen.ie /books/books_playthatthing.php3 (651 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Ireland on my mind
		At the end of the book, Henry is a Republican killer on the run; at the start of Oh, Play That Thing, he washes up where a lot of good Irishmen and women go before they die, the United States.
		For one thing, there is a lot of it about in Ireland, much of it of the turbulent kind, which lends itself to gripping fic tion.
		For another thing, there is an Irish literary tradition of using individual characters to represent a wider history, a tactic which makes sense in a country where the private/public divide has always been less emphatic than it is across the water.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1301815,00.html (987 words)

	Books at Random House of Canada \| Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
		The Vendome Cinema, where he used to play during the intermissions, is now a parking lot for the local college.
		Oh, Play That Thing is a celebration of unanchored storytelling, like a jazz musician who’s taken a 12-bar solo.”
		Meanwhile he got a lucky break when his first play, Brown Bread, was produced by a theatre group and staged at a large venue.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?0676976875 (1411 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Oh, Play That Thing \| Roddy Doyle
		When Oh, Play That Thing opens it is 1924, and Henry is sailing into New York Harbor.
		His job in Dublin now finished, this is Henry's chance for a fresh start, to leave his murderous past behind and begin life anew: "America was everything possible," he says.
		The idea of a name is extremely important throughout the novel; Henry tells the inspector at Ellis Island that his name is Henry Drake, then he calls himself Henry Glick; he doesn't know Miss O'Shea's first name (and doesn't want to know it).
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/oh_play_that_thing.html (983 words)

	Norli nettbokhandel - Doyle, Roddy - Oh, play that thing : volume two of The last roundup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		And this is where Oh, Play That Thing begins...
		It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe.
		But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a fl man cannot go, things he cannot do.
	www.norli.no /default.asp?WCU=&WCI=Article&ArticleID=9780224074438 (361 words)

	Powell's Books - Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
		In Oh, Play That Thing, Roddy Doyle once again gives us a prodigious, energetic, sexy novel, rich with language and music and, as Henry makes his way across America, teeming with surprises.
		It is both a saga unto itself — full of epic adventures, breathless escapes, and star-crossed love — and a magnificent follow-up to A Star Called Henry.
		The hotly anticipated follow-up to A Star Called Henry is a dazzling, rip-roaring, jazz-infused novel of America in the tumultuous twenties and thirties, that will take the literary world by storm.
	www.powellsbooks.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0670033618-2 (659 words)

	Oh, Play That Thing - Roddy Doyle - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oh, Play That Thing - Roddy Doyle - Penguin Group (USA)
		But Armstrong is a prisoner of his color, and the mob is in Chicago too: they own every stage—and they own the man up on the stage.
		It is both a saga unto itself—full of epic adventures, breathless escapes, and star-crossed love—and a magnificent follow-up to A Star Called Henry.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0670033618,00.html (269 words)

	JS Online: A sweeping look back at America through Irish eyes
		Now, in the sequel, "Oh, Play That Thing," Henry, on the wrong side of the civil war, does what Irish renegades throughout history have done.
		For an immigrant, particularly one who's been hiding in sewers, America in the 1920s is a veritable cornucopia of dangerous fruit: booze, sex and, most exhilarating of all, jazz.
		Viking is reprinting "A Star Called Henry" to coincide with the release of "Oh, Play That Thing." Together, they constitute one of the most remarkable achievements in recent Irish and American literature - and we're left with the tantalizing possibility of a third novel to follow.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/nov04/274249.asp?format=print (641 words)

	PAGES online- The Magazine for People Who Love Books
		as he played as if his legs were tied to the notes that jumped from the bell of his horn.
		It was life itself, the thing and the point of it.
		The truth is, "The rhythm of A Star Called Henry and Oh, Play That Thing has nothing to do with jazz or Irish music," says Doyle.
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	village voice > books > Roddy Doyle's Oh, Play That Thing by Allen Barra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Now in the sequel, Oh, Play That Thing, Henry, on the wrong side of the civil war, does what renegades throughout history have done and leaves for America.
		For a refugee from Roman Catholic Ireland, America in the '20s is a devil's playground, full of booze, sex, and most exhilarating of all, jazz.
		The first two-thirds of the book milks the fl-master/white-manservant angle for laughs while playing off a deadly serious underworld setting, in which Italian and Jewish bootleggers mix freely with mad-dog killers.
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	Oh, Play That Thing And Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
		Oh, Play That Thing And Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
		Doyle once again gives readers a prodigious, energetic, sexy novel, rich with language and music as Henry Smart makes his way across America to elude the men for whom he committed murder and mayhem.
		Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment will be essential reading for all concerned with the religious, intellectual, and social history of early modern Europe.
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	Scotland on Sunday - Arts & Books - Immigrant's American journey leads to a musical legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oh, Play That Thing, the latest instalment, opens with Smart arriving at Ellis Island - like so many Irish at that time - with nothing but the shirt on his back and his wits to live by.
		This raucous, out-of-control accordion of a book plays the picaresque tune of his adventures.
		Oh, Play That Thing feels like a research project by comparison.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /artsandbooks.cfm?id=1069622004 (735 words)

	Oh, Play That Thing: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		All I can figure is that it's one of those cases where a writer's imagination deserts him when he lights out for new territory.
		Oh, Play that Thing opens with our hero, Henry Smart, arriving in 1922 New York, a wanted man after the 1916 Rebellion, who has fled Dublin leaving behind his beloved wife, Miss O'Shea, in jail.
		"Oh, Play That Thing chronicles the birth of the American century, from the shores of Ellis Island through the Jazz Age and into the Great Depression....
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	The World of Necrotania -> Oh, Play That Thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oh, Play That Thing, Henry Smart is on the run.....
		Fleeing from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he committed murder and mayhem, he has left behind his wife, Miss O'Shea, in a Dublin jail, and his infant daughter.
		It is both a saga unto itself—full of epic adventures, breathless escapes, and star- crossed love—and a magnificent follow-up to A Star Called Henry.
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	RTÉ Online - Television - The View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Roddy Doyles new book, 'O Play That Thing' is the second volume of the trilogy that began with a Star called Henry, the story of a young boy growing up on the streets of dublin around the time of the 1916 rising.
		Henry soon befriends Louis Armstong a trumpeter of talent and colour who needs a white man to open doors for him.
		Oh Play that Thing is published by Jonathan Cape and sells in hardback for € 20 to 25 (depending where you buy it).
	www.rte.ie /tv/theview/2004/prog24/book.html (144 words)

	Home of Bigfeet -- Oh, Play That Thing! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		As a result, Doyle places his protagonist in the best places: beside Armstrong as he makes deals with music producers, in the corner of the recording studio as Satchmo changes music forever, or in Armstrong's dressing room when mobsters come to pay tribute to the musical genius.
		Doyle plays fast and loose with the facts, certainly, but that is perfectly in line with the convention he started in A Star Called Henry.
		In spite of the relatively poor finish, Oh, Play That Thing is still worth reading, if only for the dazzling sequences involving Louis Armstrong.
	www3.telus.net /bigfeet/books/oh_play_that_thing.htm (906 words)

	> > Compare UK book prices. Oh, Play That Thing , Roddy Doyle. Comparison of prices of books at uk shops including ...
		The problem with 'Oh, Play That Thing' isn't that it is a bad book.
		The problem is that this is the sequel to an absolutely superb & unforgettable book, so when this one falls so far short of its predecessor's brilliance, the reader's disappointment is huge.
		Above is a book price comparison of "Oh, Play That Thing".
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	Oh Play That Thing Volume Two Of The Last Roundup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Oh Play That Thing Volume Two Of The Last Roundup
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		Oh,by the way, the cover of the dust jacket of my copy is very different than the one shown here.Mine has a picture of a record titled "Oh,Play That Thing";pat'd Jan.21,'13.as well as what appears to be an young trumpet player--Armstrong?My copy was published by Alfred A.Knopf Canada.
	www.hallauthors.com /store/books_0670033618_Oh-Play-That-Thing.html (612 words)

	Random House : Book extract from Oh, Play That Thing
		I could see that from the boat as it went under the Statue of Liberty on a cold dawn that grew quickly behind me and shoved the fog off the slate-coloured water.
		That was Manhattan, already towering over me. It made tiny things of the people around me, all gawking at the manmade cliffs, and the ranks of even higher cliffs behind them, stretching forever into America and stopping their entry.
		I looked back at the last of Dublin and, soon enough, there was no land and the boat was just a thing on the sea.
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	Read-It.co.uk ::: Oh, Play That Thing (Hardcover)(buy new from £11.89 or used from £3.84) by Roddy Doyle; ::: books ...
		Full Review/Comment: The problem with 'Oh, Play That Thing' isn't that it is a bad book.
		The problem is that this is the sequel to an absolutely superb and unforgettable book, so when this one falls so far short of its predecessor's brilliance, the reader's disappointment is huge.
		I am anticipating the release of the final novel, in the hope that Doyle redeems what was the most endearing and exciting character he has as yet created.
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