Oh, Play That Thing 18-Copy Mixed Floor Display

- A Star Called Henry was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice for 1999, one of the Boston Globe's Best Fiction of 1999, and a New Yorker Book Awards finalist for Best Fiction 1999 - A Star Called Henry was named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, Esquire, Newsday, Seattle Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. - A Star Called Henry was on The New York Times extended bestseller list, and was a Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, and New York Post bestseller.

Review :
"You can't put Oh, Play That Thing down. It has this insane energy." --"The Edmonton Journal "The Irish author has indeed gotten better with each novel he writes. . . . Doyle takes his riskiest step yet: He leaves Ireland altogether for 1920s America. The risk pays of handsomely." --"Winnipeg Free Press "Doyle appears to be incapable of writing a bad novel. . . . Oh, Play That Thing is a coup of imagination and verve." --"Winnipeg Free Press "Doyle has a legendarily good way with words. . . . Oh, Play That Thing is a celebration of unanchored storytelling, like a jazz musician who's taken a 12-bar solo." --"National Post "For its ambition alone, and for its estimable feat of casting the great Satchmo in a compelling new light, Oh, Play That Thing shouldn't be missed." --"The Gazette (Montreal) "As engrossing and stimulating as listening to a classically trained musician improvise a jazz combo. It's both familiar and strange and that is what keeps your senses jumping as you are turning the pages. Shaking up readers' expectations is a good and necessary thing." --"The Globe and Mail Praise for "A Star Called Henry, Volume One of The Last Roundup Trilogy: "With A Star Called Henry, Doyle has put all of his prodigious gifts into a single character. . . . A Star Called Henry is a startling achievement. . .and a worm's-eye view of Irish history. A grand thing of beauty." --A "Globe and Mail Best Book of '99 "Doyle gives us the delightful Henry Smart, a kind of Irish Huck Finn, dirt poor by birth, strong and handsome by good fortune, charming and resourceful by necessity. . . . [Doyle's] mastery of voice and observed experience is arare gift." --"Ottawa Citizen "Maybe the Great American Novel remains to be written, but on the evidence of its first installment, this is the epic Irish one, created at a high pitch of eloquence." --"Publishers Weekly "In other, less forgiving climes (say, the Soviet Union), Doyle would be put on a cattle truck and sent away. For ever. There is no higher praise, I believe, than to say a book is that dangerous. I can also say that here, for once, that most overused of terms is applicable: this really is a masterpiece." --"The Irish Times "From the Hardcover edition.