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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.
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In Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, an Irish lad named Paddy rampages through the streets of Barrytown with a pack of like-minded hooligans, playing cowboys and Indians, etching their names in wet concrete, and setting fires. Roddy Doyle has captured the sensations and speech patterns of preadolescents with consummate skill, and managed to do so without resorting to sentimentality. Paddy Clarke and his friends are not bad boys; they're just a little bit restless. They're always taking sides, bullying each other, and secretly wishing they didn't have to. All they want is for something--anything--to happen.
Throughout the novel, Paddy teeters on the nervous verge of adolescence. In one scene, Paddy tries to make his little brother's hot water bottle explode, but gives up after stomping on it just one time: "I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen." Paddy Clarke senses that his world is about to change forever--and not necessarily for the better. When he realizes that his parents' marriage is falling apart, Paddy stays up all night listening, half-believing that his vigil will ward off further fighting. It doesn't work, but it is sweet and sad that he believes it might. Paddy's logic may be fuzzy, but his heart is in the right place. --Jill Marquis
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The 1993 Booker Prize winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Minerva Edition. VG, Binding is sound; mild edgewear; creasing to spine and covers; some indentations to the cover surfaces; ink name on first page; light page browning/NO DUST JACKET. Tragicomic drama. Front cover states 'Shortlisted for the Booker Prize'. Doyle subsequently won the Booker Prize with this book. Cover photo by Derek Speirs. Scan on request. Seller Inventory # 021015
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 282 pages. Cover worn. Text tannedEs ist 1968. Patrick Clarke ist zehn Jahre alt, und abends sitzt er vor dem F ernseher, knabbert Chips und sinniert ?ºber die amerikanischen Soldaten, die im Mekong-Delta gegen 'Gorillas' k?§mpfen. Er liebt den Geruch seiner W?§r mflasche und das Gef?ºhl im Mund, wenn er eine Lebertrankapsel zerbeit. Er ha t Zoos, l?§t sich ungern k?ºssen und empfindet die Jungs aus der neuerbaut en Sozialsiedlung als seine nat?ºrlichen Feinde. Seinen kleinen Bruder Sinbad kann er nicht ausstehen, daf?ºr ist Kevin sein bester Freund, mit dem er Fub all und Verbrechen spielt. Dennoch ist Paddys Welt alles andere als heil: Sein V ater trinkt zuviel und streitet immer h?§ufiger mit seiner Mutter, und schlie lich bekommt auch die Freundschaft mit Kevin einen Ri. Ohne Psychologisierungen, unsentimental und n?ºchtern, zeichnet Doyle das Leben dieses kleinen Jungen nach, der aus dem Paradies der Kindheit vertrieben wird. Ein einf?ºhlsames, s tilsicheres Portrait eines zehnj?§hrigen Jungen und seiner Welt. Seller Inventory # 1260l
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