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The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy
Author: Patrick McCabe
Welcome to the frightening world of Francie Brady or perhaps the Pig Boy to you, friend of Joe Purcell and sole student for the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. Its no easy task when your familys dead and Joe is no longer your friend, when everyone turns their back on you and leaves you alone around town, all the while singing a ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780330369565
ISBN-10: 0330369563
Publication Date: 12/1998
Pages: 215
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: MacMillan
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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CharleneY avatar reviewed The Butcher Boy on + 80 more book reviews
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Very twisted and insane story told by a demented young boy who surely needs some Ritalin. Patrick McCabe is a very talented writer and this novel was nominated for the Booker prize; it is a little hard to follow at times, between Francie's disjointed narrative and his madness, but well worth the effort.
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jasoncavallaro avatar reviewed The Butcher Boy on + 92 more book reviews
Like a hilarious and dark version of Catcher in the Rye
wantonvolunteer avatar reviewed The Butcher Boy on + 84 more book reviews
This haunting novel is about a little boy growing up in 1960's Ireland in a completely dysfunctional household with a suicidal mother and alcoholic father. Francie Brady is a survivor, he makes it through several incarcerations and is sustained by his love for his best friend Joe, despite the growing distance between them on all levels. Written in kind of a psychotic stream of consciousness, Francie's wreckless descent into madness would be unbearable to witness were it not for the hilarity that Patrick McCabe maintains throughout.

I'm curious to know what The Butcher Boy by Colin MacCabe is. Patrick McCabe's version won the 1992 Irish Time Aer Lingus Prize, and was made in to a depressing movie with Steven Rea in 1997.
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Very haunting novel...a good quick read!


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