Doyle, Roddy
Paddy Clarke ha ha ha - London Vintage 1998 - 282p.
Winner of the Booker prize 1993
It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, lepers, and jumping to the bottom of the sea. But why didn't anyone help him when Charles Leavy had been going to kill him? Why do his ma and da argue so much, but act like everything is fine? Paddy sees everything, but he understands less and less. Hilarious and poignant, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the triumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of a young boy and his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, confusion and love.
0749397357
English Literature
English Fiction
Ireland--Dublin
Friendship
Children
Manners and customs
Ireland
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
823.914 / DOY/P
Paddy Clarke ha ha ha - London Vintage 1998 - 282p.
Winner of the Booker prize 1993
It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, lepers, and jumping to the bottom of the sea. But why didn't anyone help him when Charles Leavy had been going to kill him? Why do his ma and da argue so much, but act like everything is fine? Paddy sees everything, but he understands less and less. Hilarious and poignant, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the triumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of a young boy and his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, confusion and love.
0749397357
English Literature
English Fiction
Ireland--Dublin
Friendship
Children
Manners and customs
Ireland
Doyle, Roddy, 1958-
823.914 / DOY/P