Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Cover of hardcover edition
AuthorRoddy Doyle
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherSecker & Warburg (UK)
Viking Press (US)
Publication date
1993
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint
ISBN0-436-20135-6
OCLC29258939
LC ClassPR6054.O95 P33 1993

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, first published in 1993 by Secker and Warburg. It won the Booker Prize that year. The story is about a 10-year-old boy living in Barrytown, North Dublin, and the events that happen within his age group, school and home in around 1968.

Plot synopsis

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha recounts (approximately) one year in the life of a Dublin ten-year-old, Patrick "Paddy" Clarke, especially his relationships with Sinbad (Francis), his younger brother, his parents and his schoolmates and teachers. It begins with him being a mischievous boy roaming around local Barrytown and ends with his father departing from the family, forcing the boy to take up adult responsibilities in his single-parent home.[1]

Structure and language

The novel, chronicling Paddy's internal journey towards maturity, is a bildungsroman, as it centres upon the main character's development. Paddy's growing up is painfully bitter. While the beginning of the book is filled with playful antics, the growing antagonism between his parents and the breaking up of their marriage are evident as the novel moves on. Paddy does not choose his "journey of enlightenment and maturity"[citation needed]; rather, he is robbed of it when his parents become estranged from one another.

The novel is not divided into chapters, but into numerous vignettes that do not follow any chronological order. Despite the absence of a clear-cut plot (introduction, complication, climax, dénouement) the reader is still able to sense the passage of time both in Paddy's own life and in the changes that come to Barrytown.

Doyle's language employs a register that gives the reader the vivid impression of listening to a ten-year-old Irish boy from the 1960s.

Critical reaction

The Independent praised it as "one of the truest and funniest presentations of juvenile experience in any recent literature".[2]

When it won the Booker Prize, the book was mocked by some people as an "easy", "populist" choice.[3]

References

  1. ^ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha: Plot, BBC GCSE Bitesize
  2. ^ BOOK REVIEW / A boy's own adventure: 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha' - Roddy Doyle: Secker, 14.95 pounds, The Independent, 12 June 1993
  3. ^ Guardian book club: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle, The Guardian, 14 Aug 2009

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