by Roddy Doyle · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099563754
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«Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha» is Roddy Doyle's coming-of-age novel, published by Vintage in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Paddy Clarke is ten years old and growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin, in the late 1960s. Between street games and small pranks with his gang, the boy lives the routine of a working-class neighborhood, but at home his parents' arguments become increasingly frequent. The novel portrays how Paddy, who observes everything, begins to understand the adult world less, in a bittersweet story about childhood, friendship and family relationships.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1993, this 2011 edition belongs to the Vintage 21 collection.
For readers of literary and coming-of-age fiction, interested in stories about childhood and 1960s Ireland.
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.
