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Readers who love backstage comedy, tall tales, and quick-witted rogues will feel at home here. It suits anyone curious about old American theater and anyone who likes a hero who bluffs and keeps a kind heart.
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What do you do when the summer is over before it starts, the theaters are shut, and your pocket holds eleven dollars? If you are Handy, you borrow a tent, borrow a boat, and hire seven actors to sail the Long Island Sound with you. Handy is a strolling player with a huge shock of red hair, a bass drum, and a talent for talking himself out of trouble.
A Pirate of Parts is a comic novel by Richard Neville, built from the road life of American actors in the ragtime years. It gives you quick, funny schemes, each with a lesson about nerve, luck, and loyalty.
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- 1A strolling actor starts a show on creditFree
- 2Fog turns a rival's advertising into profit
- 3Handy sells a tent show to Newport society
- 4A bluff in New London and a minister at Oyster Bay
- 5A benefit without money ends in a staged fit
- 6Debts are paid with promises, and glamour fails
- 7An oil town with no theater needs a show
- 8Cheek and push are a performer's real capital
- 9Home and kindness sit beneath the jokes
- 10Tall tales, borrowed lines and a talkative narrator
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A strolling actor starts a show on credit
Handy is an actor by trade and a jack of all trades by need. He has been a sailor, bartender, soldier, and clown, and he claims he can play anything from Macbeth to an elephant's hind leg.
The summer is a bad one for actors. Most men would stop for lack of money. Handy counts his assets instead: a friend's canvas tent, another friend's sailing vessel called the Gem of the Ocean, twenty dollars of credit with a printer, and eleven dollars in his pocket. He recruits seven old stock company players on the Rialto.
The first stop is Staten Island, for one night of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Then a sheriff appears to say the company has no license. Handy leads him to a saloon, orders beer and cigars, finds he has no cash, and jumps the back fence to run for the boat. Handy treats an empty pocket as a puzzle for nerve to solve.
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- LengthAbout 45,100 words
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Questions about Un pirate aux multiples talents
What is A Pirate of Parts about?
It follows Handy, a red-haired strolling actor, and his friends Smith and Fogg as they stage shows on credit, from tent performances along Long Island Sound to a benefit in New York and an opening night in an oil town.
Who is Handy in A Pirate of Parts?
Handy is an actor, manager, and jack of all trades who leads the company. He is cheerful, resourceful, and always short of cash, and he can bluff a sheriff, a landlord, or a crowd with equal ease.
Is A Pirate of Parts a true story?
It is a comic novel, not a record of real events. It draws on the real world of touring American theater, and its characters mention actual stage figures, plays, and songs of the ragtime years.
What does the title A Pirate of Parts mean?
The title plays on the idea of one man playing many parts. Handy takes every role that the stage and the road demand, from actor and band leader to sailor and manager, borrowing boats, tents, and credit along the way.
Is A Pirate of Parts easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that it moves in short chapters, mostly lively dialogue, and self-contained schemes. Each one has a clear problem and a funny way out, so it is easy to follow, whether read or heard.
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Neville, Richard. A Pirate of Parts. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-pirate-of-parts.
Neville, R. (2026). A pirate of parts. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-pirate-of-parts
Neville, Richard. A Pirate of Parts. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-pirate-of-parts.
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