Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha [LARGE PRINT] - 5 Angebote vergleichen

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Brainiac Books.
Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover with dustjacket LARGE PRINT EDITION 1994 Wheeler. Superclean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Only a hint of wear to jacket. 328 pages. Language: English. 'Paddy Clarke is ten years old. He lives with his ma and da, his younger brother Sinbad (at home he was Francis), and two baby sisters in the Dublin working-class neighborhood of Barrytown. Paddy spends his days with his friends Kevin, Aiden, and Liam, roaming local construction sites (it's the late 1960s, and suburbia is creeping over the Irish countryside), writing their names in wet cement, conducting Viking funerals for dead rats, and torturing Sinbad (Big brothers hated their little brothers. They had to. It was the rule.). At night, Paddy listens vigilantly for the sounds of his parents fighting, whispering the magic word Stop to end it. Filled with the same earthy humor and pungent Irish dialog that marked Doyle's earlier novels (The Commitments; The Snapper; and The Van ), this book is also a vivid and poignant portrait of a little boy trying to make sense of the adult world. As Paddy Clarke himself would say, it is brilliant, well deserving of the 1993 Booker Prize.'--Wilda Williams, Library Journal, 1993.

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contemporary,fiction,literary,literature and fiction, 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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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ergodebooks.
Wheeler Pub Inc, 1994-04. Hardcover. Good.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, ExtremelyReliable, TX, Richmond, [RE:3].
Hardcover, Large type / large print.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, ExtremelyReliable, TX, Richmond, [RE:3].
Hardcover, Large type / large print.