Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle · 1993 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Ten-year-old Paddy Clarke gives his own account of 1968 on a north Dublin estate: lighting fires, tormenting his younger brother, collecting facts off the backs of packets, ranking his friends and being ranked by them. The fields he plays in are disappearing under new houses, and the noise coming from his parents' room is getting harder to talk his way around. It took the Booker Prize.

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