Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha: A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM

Author:   Roddy Doyle
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9780099530398


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 August 2010
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Format:   Paperback
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A new Vintage Classics edition of Roddy Doyle's beloved prizewinning novel, part of a new set of beautifully presented Irish classics WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1993 Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee. Paddy Clarke hates his brother Francis because that's the rule. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma and Da, but it seems like they don't love each other, and Paddy wants to understand, but can't. See also- Cal by Bernard MacLaverty

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Author:   Roddy Doyle
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Vintage Classics
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.170kg
ISBN:  

9780099530398


ISBN 10:   0099530392
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 August 2010
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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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 Extraordinary technical achievement and emotional force -- Gillian Beer One of the truest and funniest presentations of juvenile experience in any recent literature -- Mick Imlah Independent


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 *


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 *


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 * Extraordinary technical achievement and emotional force -- Gillian Beer


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Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

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