by Roddy Doyle · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099530398
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«Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha» is Roddy Doyle's literary fiction novel, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
The novel follows Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old boy growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin, amid street mischief and games. While admiring heroes like Geronimo and George Best, Paddy witnesses the growing distance between his parents and tries to make sense of an adult world he doesn't understand, told through a child's perspective and language.
It won the Booker Prize in 1993. This Vintage Classics edition, part of the Irish Classics collection, was published in 2010; the work originally appeared in 1993.
For readers of literary fiction and Irish narrative, especially those interested in coming-of-age stories told from a child's perspective.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
