Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Set in 1960s Dublin, this coming-of-age novel unfolds through the eyes of a young boy, Paddy. Fragmented scenes in a childlike voice gradually reveal family strain, friendship, and a deepening sense of loss.
Work Information
A child's voice slowly brings the family fracture into view.
Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha portrays the approach of family breakdown through the perceptions of a young narrator. By layering everyday fragments and childhood exchanges, it gives sharp shape to a memory in which humor and pain coexist.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 1997-08-04
- Pages
- 240 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780749397357
- ISBN-10
- 9780749397357
- Price
- 2436 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Contemporary
The 1993 Booker Prize winner. Paddy Clarke, a ten-year-old Dubliner, describes his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, love, sardines and slaps across the face. He's confused; he sees everything but he understands less and less.
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. His first novel, The Commitments , was published to great acclaim in 1987 and made into a very successful film by Alan Parker. The Snapper was published in 1990 and has also been made into a film, directed by Stephen Frears. His third novel, The Van , was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize. Roddy Doyle lives in Dublin.
Reviews
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アイルランドに興味のある人は必読
｢コミットメンツ｣や｢ザ・スナッパー｣でおなじみのロディ・ドイルが パディ・クラークという10才の少年の目を通していきいきと日常生活を切り取る。時代設定は1968年だが、ノスタルジーなんていう甘い感傷とは無縁の パワフルな小説だ。学校での喧嘩やいたずら、はたまた両親の不仲まで全編一人称で書かれている本作はアイルランド英語なので最初はちょっと戸惑うが 読み進むうちにそのスピード感、リアリティの虜になる。子供同士の会話や両親とのやりとりなど爆笑必至だ。93年のブッカー賞受賞作。
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This was a well written, very entertaining book. He captured the ten year old vernacular very well, I was impressed. It is a very sad book, with some very funny parts too.
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After reading this book, I am almost inclined to go back and change my review of David Mitchell's Black Swan Green, which owes a tremendous debt to Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Doyle's book is a marvel not because of a particularly ambitious plot but rather because he captures the fickle nature of pre-adolescence as experienced by the pre-adolescent. I don't say this to belittle the family drama the eponymous character lives through. However, the drama is especially compelling only because we get a truly believable stream of consciousness narrative that magnifies the banality of it all in much the same way it would be magnified in any child's mind. Stream of consciousness narratives can be difficult to follow at times. Even though this one, like many others, is chronologically non-linear, it is not willfully opaque. It moves authentically through Paddy's days with his friends and schoolmates, juxtaposing his peer relationships with his family ones. Doyle's book is a pleasure to read, and stylistically brilliant. There is every reason pick it up. And pair Black Swan Green with this one, not Catcher in the Rye.
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Doyle really tells the story from a believable child's perspective, especially when describing those small things that seem more important to small humans. Incredibly authentic, beautiful and sad.
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I read this book years ago and enjoyed reading it again. The writer has a great ear for dialogue.
Related Literary Awards
- Booker Prize Edition 25 (1993) ・Winner