The butcher boy
Patrick McCabe, MacCabe, Colin., Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley · 1994
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About the book
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.
Book details
- Year
- 1994
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Fromm International Pub. Corp.
- Editions
- 13
- Pages
- 215
- ISBN
- 9780880641470
Data source: Wikidata
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