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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	:	Deluxe 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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This book, a Booker Prize nominee, is disturbing but very enlightening. Set in Ireland, it follows the adolescence of Francis "Francie" Brady, the son of an alcoholic father and a mother literally at her wits' end. The family is poor, and I think the book's biggest strength is showing how poverty traps people from one generation to the next. But one cannot overlook Francie's main problem: he gets in trouble, and progressively more trouble as the story develops. McCabe does a great job of

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 powerful book, one that fills the reader with pity and terror. The protagonist is Francie Brady, a sort of Irish Huckleberry Finn, with three important differences: 1) Francie still yearns to be respectable, 2) he has no wise Jim to guide him, and 3) he is despised by his town and betrayed by Joe, his own Tom Sawyer. Alas, there is no Mississippi river to escape to, and the book ends in blood and madness. Yet--and this is one of the strange strengths of the book--it is narrated by

3 1/2 starsTalk about being mislead by a cover - I thought this was going to be more of a light hearted comedy than a whirlpool nose dive down into madness and horror. The cheeky young scamp depicted on the comic strip is, I shortly discovered, several sandwiches short of a full picnic. Francis (Francie) Brady lives in a small town a little outside of Dublin; his mother had previously been 'sent to the garage to be fixed' and his father seems an alcoholic loser so Danny Boy here doesn't exactly

McCabe's impressive novel deserves credit for fearlessly tackling some very tricky literary territory. Francie Brady's lengthy, unbridled interior monologue is compounded with his increasing unreliability as a narrator. You see, young Francie is going mad. His quickening psychosis is convincingly made apparent by his churning verbal output - as Brady's perception fragments, so does ours. His orange sky/frozen puddle/pigs/fish in the river imagery teams up and blends in so well with his obsessive

i thoroughly enjoyed the writing style, as it reminded me in subtle ways of Samuel Beckett... i found the plot a bit lacking though... the meanderings and musings and mental machinations of the titular character are funny and sad and downright disturbing... there is a great feel for the small town here, and the characters are all, well, quite the characters... Francie's descent into madness and violence is a rather well-trodden path - drinking, spousal abuse, petty criminality, stint at the

This is one of the most profoundly sad books I have ever read.