| Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Contributor(s): Doyle, Roddy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140233903 ISBN-13: 9780140233902 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: In this national bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize, Roddy Doyle, author of the "Barrytown Trilogy", takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story of ten-year-old Padraic Clarke. Witty and poignant--and adored by critics and readers alike--Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the trumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of Paddy as he tries to make sense of his changing world. print. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00003988 |
| Lexile Measure: 490 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.06" W x 7.82" (0.43 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the Booker Prize - Roddy Doyle's witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world 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. |