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The Butcher Boy

English · Paperback

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A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent. Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the troubles at home and getting up to mischief with his best friend Joe - hiding in the chicken-house, shouting abuse at fish in the local stream. But after a disagreement with his neighbour Mrs Nugent over her son''s missing comic books, Francie''s reckless streak spirals out of control and gives rise to a monstrous obsession . . . Fearless, shocking and blackly funny, Patrick McCabe''s The Butcher Boy won the 1992 Irish Times Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. It is a modern classic of Irish fiction, a portrait of the insidious violence latent in small town life and of a frenzied young man lashing out at everyone, even himself. Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

About the author

Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. He is the author of the children's story The Adventures of Shay Mouse, and the novels Music on Clinton Street, Carn, The Butcher Boy (winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize), The Dead School , Breakfast on Pluto (shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize), Mondo Desperando, Emerald Germs of Ireland and Call Me The Breeze. He lives in Monaghan.

Product details

Authors Patrick McCabe
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback
Released 06.03.2025
 
EAN 9781035065226
ISBN 978-1-0-3506522-6
No. of pages 256
Dimensions 130 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
Series Picador Classic
Picador Collection
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Ireland, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place

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