![]() ![]() But for Paddy, best friend Kevin, and the rest of the gang, these construction sites are the playgrounds of choice-rich sources of useful material and the perfect settings for mischief. Barrytown, a suburb once on the edge of the city, is now increasingly surrounded by new public-housing projects-a situation that makes for a certain uneasiness since the Barrytowners themselves are barely holding onto their own hard-won middle-class respectability. ![]() Doyle, who's limned with wry affection the lives of families in Dublin's working-class neighborhoods, here makes ten-year-old Paddy Clarke of Barrytown, Dublin, his narrator. Irish writer Doyle's fourth novel (The Van, The Snapper, etc.)-and the just-announced 1993 Booker Prize winner: a story that depicts with remarkable acuity that extraordinary intensity of response that is at the heart of childhood. ![]()
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