The Butcher Boy
01 January 2015Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With an introduction by Ross Raisin.
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...
Details
01 January 2015256 pages
9781447275169Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Brilliant, unique . . . reading fiction will never be the same againRoddy Doyle
The most astonishing Irish novel for many years, a masterpieceSunday 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 decadeNeil 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 RipperObserver
