The Butcher Boy
$22.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2025
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035065226 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035065223 |
| Author: | Patrick McCabe |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Brilliant, unique … reading fiction will never be the same again – Roddy Doyle
The most astonishing Irish novel for many years, a masterpiece * Sunday Independent *
The Butcher Boy takes Irish literature to a place it has never been before. Both familiar and extraordinary, it is the most significant novel to emerge from Ireland this decade – Neil Jordan
An insidious, funny, breathtakingly horrific novel set in small-town Ireland, switching from mischief to madness as an adolescent obsession turns Dennis the Menace into Jack the Ripper * Observer *
An intense, disturbing and original novel … prose which races yet lets you miss nothing – Alan Sillitoe
Compelling, unashamedly horrible, memorable and sensitive * Times Literary Supplement *
Patrick McCabe
Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland in 1955. He is the author of the children’s story The Adventures of Shay Mouse, and the novels Music on Clinton Street, Carn, The Butcher Boy (winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize), The Dead School, Breakfast on Pluto (shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize), Mondo Desperando, Emerald Germs of Ireland and Call Me The Breeze. He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.
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