Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha : Vintage Classics

Winner of the 1993 Man Booker Prize

By: Roddy Doyle

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Paperback | 5 August 2010 | Edition Number 1

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The bittersweet story of a boy growing up in north Dublin, winner of the Booker Prize

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and hates him because that's the rule. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma and Da, but it seems like they don't love each other, and Paddy's world is falling apart.

About The Author

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of seven acclaimed novels and Rory and Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

Industry Reviews

Funny, warm and enriching. -- Alan Davies * Daily Express *
Funny, warm and enriching. -- Alan Davies * Daily Express *
Truthful, hilarious, painfully sad * Spectator *
Gloriously triumphant...confirms Doyle as the best novelist of his generation * Literary Review *
It is 1968. Paddy Clarke is ten years old, breathless with discovery. He reads with a child's voraciousness, collecting facts the way adults collect grey hairs and parking tickets. Doyle captures the speech patterns of childhood brilliantly, the weird logic of the incessant questions, the non-sequiturs and wonderments... Like all great comic writers, Roddy Doyle has become an explorer of the deepest places of the heart, of love and pain and loss. This is one of the most compelling novels I've read in ages, a triumph of style and perception * Irish Times *

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