Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Vintage Classics)

by RoddyDoyle (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $12.86

  WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE - the bittersweet and funny take of a boy growing up in north Dublin. 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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.25

  Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $4.69

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $22.50