The Butcher Boy: A Novel - Softcover

McCabe, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385312377 ISBN 13: 9780385312370

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Patrick McCabe

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Críticas:

Shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.

Winner of the Irish Times-Aer Lingus Literature Prize for Fiction.

"An almost perfect novel...A Beckett monologue with plot by Alfred Hitchcock...Startlingly original."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Stunning...part Huck Finn, part Holden Caufield, part Hannibal Lecter."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Brilliant, unique. Patrick McCabe pushes your head through the book and you come out the other end gasping, admiring, and knowing that reading fiction will never be the same again. It's the best Irish novel I've read in years."
--Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

"A chilling tale of a child's hell...often screamingly funny...the book has a compelling and terrible beauty."
--The Boston Globe

"Lyrical and disturbing, horrific and hilarious."
--The New York Times

"Patrick McCabe is an outstanding writer. The Butcher Boy is fearful, original, compelling and very hard to put out of your mind. American readers should pay close attention to this man."
--Thomas McGuane

Reseña del editor:

Telling the strange and sometimes hilarious tale of a deeply disturbed boy, a portrait of a dangerous mind profiles Francie, known in his repressive Irish town as the "Pig Boy," as his bright and love-starved psyche descends into madness. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385312377
• ISBN 13: 9780385312370
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240