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The Butcher Boy: Nominated for The Man Booker Prize 1992 (Picador Classic)

By Patrick McCabe

The Butcher Boy: Nominated for The Man Booker Prize 1992 (Picador Classic) Contemporary literature

The Butcher Boy: Nominated for The Man Booker Prize 1992 (Picador Classic)

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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, 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. 'Brilliant, unique . . . reading fiction will never be the same again' Roddy Doyle 'The most astonishing Irish novel for many years, a masterpiece' Sunday Independent
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2015-01-01
Publication Date:
2015-01-01
Publisher:
Picador
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1447275160
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
210 g
Height:
19.7 cm
Width:
13 cm
Thickness:
1.6 cm
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