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Synopsis
Francie Brady, the "pig boy, " is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not A Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you? Not only was The Butcher Boy nominated for, and the winner of, major literary prizes, but McCabe's theatrical adaptation of the novel, Frank Pig Says Hello, was staged in Dublin with tremendous success, and a production is now planned for London's Royal Court theater.
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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. Short-listed for the Booker Prize.
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Brilliant, unique . . . reading fiction will never be the same again (Roddy Doyle)
The most astonishing Irish novel for many years, a masterpiece (Sunday Independent)
The Butcher Boy takes Irish literature to a place it has never been before. Both familiar and extraordinary, it is the most significant novel to emerge from Ireland this decade (Neil Jordan)
An insidious, funny, breathtakingly horrific novel set in small-town Ireland, switching from mischief to madness as an adolescent obsession turns Dennis the Menace into Jack the Ripper (Observer)
An intense, disturbing and original novel . . . prose which races yet lets you miss nothing (Alan Sillitoe)
Compelling, unashamedly horrible, memorable and sensitive (Times Literary Supplement)
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0671887599
- ISBN 13 9780671887599
- BindingAudio Cassette
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The Butcher Boy: A Novel
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