The BUTCHER BOY

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• King of Bog Gothic

  In a phone-call to arrange our meeting, Pat McCabe begins by complaining about profiles of him in the past: "Journalists always come over and end up writing all this stuff about Sligo and its relevance to my work," he grumbles down the line from his ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Never Call a Boy a Pig

  During this century small town and village life in Ireland hasn’t lacked for literary detraction and exposé. In fiction the line begins with George Moore; his short stories, collected in The Untilled Field (1903), depict monotonous and stunted lives ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

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  Excellent book. Throws you right into the mind of a really messed-up kid living with his abusive, drunken dad and depressed mom with a very dim future ahead of him. As every bad thing that could befall him starts to pile up, upon breaking point he finally decides to even the odds. The stream of cons ... (continue)

  Excellent book. Throws you right into the mind of a really messed-up kid living with his abusive, drunken dad and depressed mom with a very dim future ahead of him. As every bad thing that could befall him starts to pile up, upon breaking point he finally decides to even the odds. The stream of conscious internal dialogue can be quite hard to grasp and but it accurately captures his sinking into delusion, insanity and chilling violence. Very disturbing.

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  Danelectrico said on Dec 6, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

• 1 person find this helpful

  

  Reminded me of The Wasp Factory. A great read if you enjoy trawling through the mind of a complete psychopath. A bit too.. how shall I put it.. violent.. for me at least.

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  annemarie said on Jan 9, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Audio Cassette
• Edition: Abridged
• ISBN-10: 0671887599
• ISBN-13: 9780671887599
• Publisher: Audioworks
• Pub date: Sep 01, 1994
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and Others
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libri Italiani

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