The Butcher Boy (Ireland into Film)
by Patrick McCabe, MacCabe, Colin., Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley, and Neil Jordan
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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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The Butcher Boy (Ireland into Film)
June 2007, Cork University Press
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1859182860 9781859182864
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