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Irish author Roddy Doyle writes rowdy novels rooted in the working-class experience, replete with colloquial vulgarisms and vibrant slang. In Doyle's tales, from The Commitments (his debut) to Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (the 1993 Booker Prize winner), lives are tough but beauty and tenderness shine through. Oh, Play That Thing is the fast-moving, picaresque sequel to A Star Called Henry, Doyle's novel of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War.