The butcher boy [Paperback]
McCabe, Pat, 1955-2015
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With an introduction by Ross Raisin 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.
Main title:
The butcher boy [Paperback] / Patrick McCabe.
Author:
McCabe, Pat, 1955-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2015.©2015.
Collation:
xiii, 238 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 1992.
ISBN:
9781447275169 (paperback)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
BRN:
366761
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Paperbacks | M | Available |