When Roddy Doyle introduced a lively ten-year-old hero from north Dublin named Paddy Clarke， he captivated reviewers and audiences around the world. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha captured the 1993 Booker Prize， garnered passionate reviews， and became a phenomenal bestseller. Carolyn See of The Washington Post， called it "one of the great modern Irish novels." Doyle followed that success with The Woman Who Walked Into Doors， a unanimously and ecstatically acclaimed novel with a narrator critics compared to Joyce's Molly Bloom. Now the finest Irish writer of his generation enchants us once again with his most prodigious novel to date--A Star Called Henry.

With his trademark sharp-edged wit and breathtaking prose， Roddy Doyle introduces Henry Smart--adventurer， IRA assassin， and lover. Narrated by its protagonist， A Star Called Henry takes us through Henry's early years of reckless heroism and adventure， from the courtship of his young mother and one-legged father to his own celebrated birth and his childhood on the streets of Dublin; from his role as a valiant soldier fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising to that of a young father and rebel.