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The Butcher Boy: A Novel by McCabe, Patrick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Butcher Boy: A Novel about?

Through his narrator’s stream of consciousness, Patrick McCabe portrays the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland in the 1960s."Lyrical and disturbing, horrific and hilarious." - The New York TimesThis is the story of Francis ‘Francie’ Brady, whose troubled home life leaves him violent and detached, yet somehow still childlike. Things begin to fall apart after his mother’s suicide - when he is consumed with fury and commits a terrible crime. Committed to an asylum, it is only here that he finally achieves peace."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 JordanPatrick McCabe 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), The Dead School, Breakfast on Pluto (shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize), Mondo Desperando, Emerald Germs of Ireland and Call Me the Breeze.

Who reads The Butcher Boy: A Novel?

Author

McCabe, Patrick

Publisher

Delta

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780880641470

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror

Rating

3.83 / 5 (5,114 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14