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The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe. Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.
- Patrick McCabe
- 224 pp (first edition, hardback)
- 1992
- April 1992
The Butcher Boy is a 1992 novel by Patrick McCabe. Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960's, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.
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- 1992
- Patrick McCabe
- Paperback
Aug 1, 1994 · The Butcher Boy: A Novel. Paperback – August 1, 1994. by Patrick McCabe (Author) 4.4 978 ratings. See all formats and editions. "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."
- Patrick McCabe
- $16
- Delta
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Jan 1, 1993 · 4.4 950 ratings. See all formats and editions. There is a newer edition of this item: The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic (Picador Classics) $13.01. (950) Only 19 left in stock - order soon. This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland.
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- Patrick McCabe
Dark, haunting, often screamingly funny, The Butcher Boy chronicles the pig boy’s ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness. No writer since James Joyce has had such marvelous control of rhythm and language… and no novel since The Silence Of The Lambs has stunned us with such a macabre, dangerous mind.
- Paperback
Aug 1, 1994 · Dark, haunting, often screamingly funny, The Butcher Boy chronicles the pig boy's ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness.
McCabe was teaching learning-disabled students in a grammar school in London when his third novel, "The Butcher Boy," was published in 1992. The novel is a coming-of-age story written in...
