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Original Title:	The Butcher Boy
ISBN:	0385312377 (ISBN13: 9780385312370)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Devlin, Francis "Francie" Brady, Philip Nugent, Bernard "Benny" Brady, Joseph Purcell, Mrs. Nugent, Buttsy, Aloysius "Alo" Brady
Setting:	Monaghan(Ireland) Bundoran, County Donegal(Ireland)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1992), Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction (1992)

The Butcher Boy Paperback | Pages: 231 pages

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Title	:	The Butcher Boy
Author	:	Patrick McCabe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 231 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1994 by Delta (first published April 10th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Horror

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"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting on Mrs and young Francis are you both well? . . .what she was really saying was: Ah hello Mrs Pig how are you and look Philip do you see what's coming now -- The Pig Family!"

This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and the Man Booker Prize.

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There are certain books I've read that are so intense that they have left an indelible print on me, despite what I've thought of the book overall. Over the years that list has grown and include Jerzy Kosinksi's The Painted Bird, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory, and Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange. I can now add Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy to that list.This first-person stream-of-consciousness narrative takes some getting used to. Francie Brady

"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". SynopsisThe Butcher Boy is a darkly comic yet disturbing novel by Irish author Patrick McCabe. Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a 12 year old boy who retreats into a violent fantasy world to escape the reality of his dysfunctional family. Francie's father is an ex-musician and a

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.From memory, this is the first sentence of The Butcher Boy, a book that meant a lot to me fifteen or twenty years ago when I was a young man and lived in a town in the Adelaide Hills. Just the fact that I remember the line proves the book affected me; I don't remember many first lines but for all-time classics like 'Somebody must have been telling lies

Leave The paper to pick you next read and like me you may find yourself reading a disturbing as fuck, scary as hell, beautiful jewel like this in other words this books creepy but awesome! and fun ontop of that!

Last year the Booker prize winner was Milkman by Anna Burns and what a disappointing read that proved to be. Set in Belfast this was a book of gossip told in the first person by "middle sister" in a very claustrophobic and confusing style. Why should I tell you this? quite simply it is only to draw a comparison between a book that did not deserve the prize and a book published in 1992 that was Booker shortlisted but did not win....and what a pity it didn't...... The Butcher Boy is a highly

This is a truly wonderful book. I read it in less than two days, devouring every word, dissecting the prose to extract the factual from the imagined from the dialogue. This was easy for me, although I can see how it might be difficult for readers not so familiar with Irish idiom (and the comic books of the sixties).Other reviewers spoke about the violence in the book, but there is hardly any, and what there is occurs close to the end and is treated in a characteristically off-hand way.I loved