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    The Dead Republic
    The Dead Republic
    The Dead Republic
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Dead Republic

    Written by Roddy Doyle

    Narrated by Gerard Doyle

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle shines with this epic conclusion to the saga of his indomitable Irish rebel Henry Smart. Chronicling nearly 25 years of history, The Dead Republic finds Smart working closely with, then violently severing ties to, legendary Hollywood director John Ford and eventually returning to Ireland in the 1950s. Desiring a quiet retired life in a small village north of Dublin, his life is further thrown into tumult by IRA uprisings and a surprising reunion with a woman who may just be his long-lost wife.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 29, 2010
    ISBN9781449837808
    The Dead Republic
    Author

    Roddy Doyle

    Roddy Doyle is a bestselling author acclaimed across the world. He was born in Dublin in 1958 and still lives there today. He has won many awards for his writing, including the Booker Prize and a BAFTA for Best Screenplay. He has also won the Irish Children's Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. His novel The Commitments was turned into a blockbuster film directed by Alan Parker and opened as a musical to rave reviews. Rover and the Big Fat Baby is his eighth novel for children and the fourth book in the series which began with The Giggler Treatment.

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    • 5/5
      A satisfying end to the story of Henry Smart. While this book can't match "A Star Called Henry" in terms of plot or surrealism, it far surpasses "Oh, Play That Thing" in absolutely every area, and lays Henry to rest in a very moving, well-written, and interesting way.
    • 4/5
      Other reviewers have written that Doyle is much better when he's focusing on character and dialogue rather than plot, and I'd have to agree. There are times when this book sings, and it's most often when Henry Smart is talking, even though he in fact says very little (outloud at least). It never quite reaches the heights of A Star Called Henry, but it certainly eclipses Oh Play That Thing, though all three of them will sit happily on my shelves for a later re-reading.And I'm pleased to see that Doyle has taken Henry Smart to something resembling a logical ending. Smart, is after all, modern Ireland -- though I'm not sure what that says about Ireland today.
    • 5/5
      A satisfying look into the last years and days of Henry Smart and Miss O'Shea.
    • 4/5
      Henry Smart is back. It is 1946, and Henry has crawled into the desert of Utah's Monument Valley to die. He's stumbled onto a film set though, and ends up in Hollywood collaborating with John Ford on a script based on his life. Eventually, Henry finds himself back in Ireland, where he becomes a custodian, and meets up with a woman who may or may not be his long-lost wife. After being injured in a political bombing in Dublin, the secret of his rebel past comes out, and Henry is a national hero. Or are his troubles just beginning? Raucous, colorful, and epic, The Dead Republic is the magnificent final act in the life of one of Doyle's most unforgettable characters.
    • 5/5
      It's a great ending to the trilogy. Henry Smart, arguably Doyle's most powerful character, returns to Ireland after a 20+ year absence. Smart's well defined sense of ethics and justice are here in force, from protecting children from violent teachers to challenging every sweet and not so sweet stereotype. Doyle has a great deal of courage taking on the icons of Hibernian pride -- I appreciate his willingness to present the truth as he sees it.Doyle continues to be the best darned dialogue writer I know of, and the richness of Henry's character, as well as those of the major and bit players in this book, is what makes him my favorite writer.
    • 3/5
      From this trilogy, A star called Henry is the most mythical, romantic and sensual book. The plot of the two other is in my opinion diluted by the interaction of Henry Smart with Louis Armstrong and John Ford and should not have taken such a prominent place. The most gripping moments of the story are when HS is looking for his family at the end of Oh play that thing and when he is conversing with the IRA people. Still, Roddy Doyle is one of my favorite writers.