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Viking Books
May 2010
On Sale: April 29, 2010
Featuring: Henry Smart
336 pages
ISBN: 0670021776
EAN: 9780670021772
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The
triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that began with A
Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle's
irrepressible Irish rebel Henry Smart is back-and he is
not mellowing with age. Saved from death in California's
Monument Valley by none other than Henry Fonda, he ends up
in Hollywood collaborating with legendary director John
Ford on a script based on his life. Returning to Ireland
in 1951 to film The Quiet Man- which to Henry's
consternation has been completely sentimentalized-he
severs his relationship with Ford.
His career in
film over, Henry settles into a quiet life in a village
north of Dublin, where he finds work as a caretaker for a
boys' school and takes up with a woman named Missus
O'Kelly, whom he suspects- but is not quite sure-may be
his long-lost wife, the legendary Miss O'Shea. After being
injured in a political bombing in Dublin in 1974, Henry is
profiled in the newspaper and suddenly the secret of his
rebel past is out. Henry is a national hero. Or are his
troubles just beginning?
Raucous, colorful, epic,
and full of intrigue and incident, The Dead
Republic is also a moving love story-the magnificent
final act in the life of one of Roddy Doyle's most
unforgettable characters.
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