Oh, Play That Thing (9780099477655)

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe.

Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America...

Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music.

Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 384 pages
• Dimensions 129 x 198 x 24mm | 266g
• Publication date 01 Sep 2006
• Publisher Vintage Publishing
• Imprint VINTAGE
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 0
• ISBN10 0099477653
• ISBN13 9780099477655
• Bestsellers rank 147,385

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