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Original Title:	The Butcher Boy
ISBN:	0385312377 (ISBN13: 9780385312370)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Devlin, Francis "Francie" Brady, Philip Nugent, Bernard "Benny" Brady, Joseph Purcell, Mrs. Nugent, Buttsy, Aloysius "Alo" Brady
Setting:	Monaghan(Ireland) Bundoran, County Donegal(Ireland)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1992), Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction (1992)

The Butcher Boy

Patrick McCabe

Paperback | Pages: 231 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 7315 Users | 591 Reviews

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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. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and the Man Booker Prize.

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Title	:	The Butcher Boy
Author	:	Patrick McCabe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 231 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1994 by Delta (first published April 10th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Irish Literature. Cultural. Ireland. Horror

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Last year the Booker prize winner was Milkman by Anna Burns and what a disappointing read that proved to be. Set in Belfast this was a book of gossip told in the first person by "middle sister" in a very claustrophobic and confusing style. Why should I tell you this? quite simply it is only to draw a comparison between a book that did not deserve the prize and a book published in 1992 that was Booker shortlisted but did not win....and what a pity it didn't...... The Butcher Boy is a highly

i thoroughly enjoyed the writing style, as it reminded me in subtle ways of Samuel Beckett... i found the plot a bit lacking though... the meanderings and musings and mental machinations of the titular character are funny and sad and downright disturbing... there is a great feel for the small town here, and the characters are all, well, quite the characters... Francie's descent into madness and violence is a rather well-trodden path - drinking, spousal abuse, petty criminality, stint at the

This is one of the most profoundly sad books I have ever read.

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.From memory, this is the first sentence of The Butcher Boy, a book that meant a lot to me fifteen or twenty years ago when I was a young man and lived in a town in the Adelaide Hills. Just the fact that I remember the line proves the book affected me; I don't remember many first lines but for all-time classics like 'Somebody must have been telling lies

Can children be evil? In literature this is certainly the case. I am reminded of the evil little girl, Rhoda Penmark, in The Bad Seed by William March. In Patrick McCabe's third novel we have a rival for Rhoda with Francie Brady. It is a journey into the heart of darkness: the mind of a desperately troubled kid one step away from madness and murder. Francie Brady is a schoolboy in a small town in Ireland. His father is a mean drunk and his mother a slovenly housekeeper, but Francie has a good

The Butcher Boy or Francie Bradys Descent Into MADNESS (<--imagine Im using my best Dan Rather for 48 Hours Mystery voice there)At first I thought this was going to be a sort of case study in the makings of a sociopath (failure to conform to social norms check; deceitfulness check; disregard for safety of others check; consistent irresponsibility-check; check; check; check). But oh no, it is far far worse than that for our little Francie Brady. Francie Brady skips right through sociopathy

This is a powerful book, one that fills the reader with pity and terror. The protagonist is Francie Brady, a sort of Irish Huckleberry Finn, with three important differences: 1) Francie still yearns to be respectable, 2) he has no wise Jim to guide him, and 3) he is despised by his town and betrayed by Joe, his own Tom Sawyer. Alas, there is no Mississippi river to escape to, and the book ends in blood and madness. Yet--and this is one of the strange strengths of the book--it is narrated by