The Miseducation of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
| Author | Paul Howard |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | D. Gorman |
| Country |
 Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ross O'Carroll-Kelly |
| Publisher | Sunday Tribune |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 127 |
| ISBN | 0-9526035-8-6 |
| Followed by | Roysh Here, Roysh Now… The Teenage Dirtbag Years |
The Miseducation of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: The Diary of a Schools Rugby Player is a 2000 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the first in the best-selling Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. It was adapted from a series of columns by Howard in the Irish newspaper, the Sunday Tribune.[1][2]
Title
The title refers to the Lauryn Hill album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which title refers in turn to Carter G. Woodson's book The Mis-Education of the Negro.
Plot
The novel in its original version is strikingly similar to American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, from the many prolonged descriptions of the clothes worn by the characters to specific scenes such as Ross dispensing advice on the appropriate type of shoe to wear with chinos, which is taken almost word-for-word from a similar passage in Ellis's work. Much of this content was removed in the revised edition as the comedic aspect of the series came to the fore.
The Miseducation Years
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| Author | Paul Howard |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Alan Clarke |
| Cover artist | Alan Clarke |
| Country |
Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Series | Ross O'Carroll-Kelly |
| Publisher | The O'Brien Press |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 246 |
| ISBN | 0-86278-852-8 |
| Followed by | The Teenage Dirtbag Years |
In 2004, a revised and expanded edition, titled The Miseducation Years, was published.