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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/2015
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- ISBN:9781447275169
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Pan Macmillan
- Publication Date:01/01/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781447275169
