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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 05/08/2010
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ISBN: 9780099530398
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £8.99
Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke has a brother called Francis, but Paddy calls him Sinbad and hates him because that's the rule. Paddy Clarke knows the exact moment to knock a dead scab from his knee. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma and Da, but it seems like they don't love each other, and Paddy's world is falling apart.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 05/08/2010
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ISBN: 9780099530398
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Funny, warm and enriching."
Daily Express
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"Truthful, hilarious, painfully sad"
Spectator
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"Gloriously triumphant...confirms Doyle as the best novelist of his generation"
Literary Review
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"It is 1968. Paddy Clarke is ten years old, breathless with discovery. He reads with a child's voraciousness, collecting facts the way adults collect grey hairs and parking tickets. Doyle captures the speech patterns of childhood brilliantly, the weird logic of the incessant questions, the non-sequiturs and wonderments... Like all great comic writers, Roddy Doyle has become an explorer of the deepest places of the heart, of love and pain and loss. This is one of the most compelling novels I've read in ages, a triumph of style and perception"
Irish Times
