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With an introduction by Ross RaisinA 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 a blind eye to the troubles at home and getting up to mischief with his best friend Joe - hiding in the chicken-house, shouting abuse at fish in the local stream. But after a disagreement with his neighbour Mrs Nugent over her son's missing comic books, Francie's reckless streak spirals out of control and gives rise to a monstrous obsession . . .Fearless, shocking and blackly funny, Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy won the 1992 Irish Times Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. It is a modern classic of Irish fiction, a portrait of the insidious violence latent in small town life and of a frenzied young man lashing out at everyone, even himself.
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The Butcher Boy, Patrick McCabe
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Titel
- The Butcher Boy
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Patrick McCabe
- Verlag
- Picador
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 1447275160
- ISBN13
- 9781447275169
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Krimi, Thriller, Horror, Freundschaft, Beziehungen, Morde, Psychologische Thriller, Erwachsenwerden, Verfilmt, Irland, Gewalt, Verlust, Irische Literatur, Psychologische Romane, Kindheit, Familienbeziehungen, Psychische Störungen, Hass, Kleinstadt, Alkoholismus, 60er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, Brandstiftung, Booker Preis, Tod in der Familie
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1992
- Originaltitel
- The Butcher Boy
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- With an introduction by Ross RaisinA 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 a blind eye to the troubles at home and getting up to mischief with his best friend Joe - hiding in the chicken-house, shouting abuse at fish in the local stream. But after a disagreement with his neighbour Mrs Nugent over her son's missing comic books, Francie's reckless streak spirals out of control and gives rise to a monstrous obsession . . .Fearless, shocking and blackly funny, Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy won the 1992 Irish Times Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. It is a modern classic of Irish fiction, a portrait of the insidious violence latent in small town life and of a frenzied young man lashing out at everyone, even himself.