The Butcher Boy (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Picador Classic
Release date:	2015
Authors:	Patrick McCabe
Introduction by:	Ross Raisin
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	238
Edition:	Main Market Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4472-7516-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4472-7516-0
Barcode:	9781447275169

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