{"product_id":"the-butcher-boy-9780385312370","title":"The Butcher Boy","description":"\"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus begins Patrick McCabe's shattering novel \u003cb\u003eThe Butcher Boy\u003c\/b\u003e, a powerful and unrelenting journey into the heart of darkness. The bleak, eerie voice belongs to Francie Brady, the \"pig boy,\" the only child of and alcoholic father and a mother driven mad by despair. Growing up in a soul-stifling Irish town, Francie is bright, love-starved, and unhinged, his speech filled with street talk, his heart filled with pain...his actions perfectly monstrous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHeld up for scorn by Mrs. Nugent, a paragon of middle-class values, and dropped by his best friend, Joe, in favor of her mamby-pamby son, Francie finally has a target for his rage--and a focus for his twisted, horrific plan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDark, haunting, often screamingly funny, \u003cb\u003eThe Butcher Boy\u003c\/b\u003e chronicles the pig boy's ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness. No writer since James Joyce has had such marvelous control of rhythm and language... and no novel since \u003cb\u003eThe Silence Of The Lambs\u003c\/b\u003e has stunned us with such a macabre, dangerous mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick McCabe\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Ireland in 1955. His novels include \u003ci\u003eMusic on Clinton Street, Carn, The Butcher Boy, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreakfast on Pluto\u003c\/i\u003e. The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Butcher Boy\u003c\/i\u003e won the Irish Times\/Aer Lingus Literature Prize in 1992 and was made into a film, directed by Neil Jordan, in 1997. The film \u003ci\u003eBreakfast on Pluto, \u003c\/i\u003e also directed by and co-written with Neil Jordan, was released in 2006 to great acclaim. His play \u003ci\u003eFrank Pig Says Hello\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Methuen Drama in \u003ci\u003eFar From the Land: New Irish Plays\u003c\/i\u003e in 1998. Patrick McCabe lives in his home town of Clones, County Monaghan.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Delta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647453696274,"sku":"9780385312370","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_658c3068-b9f8-4107-9181-c22347f501c1.jpg?v=1734800158","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-butcher-boy-9780385312370","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}