An edition of The butcher boy (1992)

The butcher boy

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An edition of The butcher boy (1992)

The butcher boy

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  • ★★★ 3.2 (4 ratings)
  • 37 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

Francie Brady, the "pig boy," is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not A Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you?

Not only was The Butcher Boy nominated for, and the winner of, major literary prizes, but McCabe's theatrical adaptation of the novel, Frank Pig Says Hello, was staged in Dublin with tremendous success, and a production is now planned for London's Royal Court theater.

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Picador
Language
English
Pages
215

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Boys Family Fiction Ireland Mentally ill Families Fiction, psychological Ireland, fiction Mentally ill--ireland--fiction Families--ireland--fiction Boys--ireland--fiction Pr6063.c32 b87 1993 823/.914 Irish fiction novel Butcher boy (Motion picture : 1997) Ireland, history Film adaptations In motion pictures Butcher boy (Motion picture) Film and video adaptations Family life City and town life Fiction, general Murder Feature films Paranoia Drama Asylums Children of suicide victims Children of alcoholics Fiction. 650/3: 0:

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Patrick McCabe Pat McCabe (1955-)

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Ireland

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1960

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The Butcher Boy (Ireland into Film)
June 2007, Cork University Press
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The butcher boy
1994, Dell
in English
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The butcher boy
1993, Picador
in English
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The butcher boy
1992, Fromm International Pub. Corp.
in English
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The butcher boy
1992, Fromm International Pub. Corp.
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The Butcher Boy
April 10, 1992, Picador
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Originally published, 1992.

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London

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Dewey Decimal Class
823.914

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215p. ;
Number of pages
215

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL20130906M
ISBN 10
0330328743
LibraryThing
7858
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1056734

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OL78693W

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