Author: McCabe, Patrick Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 6 March 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom as part of the Picador Collection series.Paperback | 256 pages197 x 129 x 16 | 182g 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 sons missing comic books, Francies reckless streak spirals out of control and gives rise to a monstrous obsession . . .Fearless, shocking and blackly funny, Patrick McCabes 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.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
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