num_pages: 231
description: "I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting on Mrs and young Francis are you both well? . . .what she was really saying was: Ah hello Mrs Pig how are you and look Philip do you see what's coming now -- The Pig Family!"  This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and the Man Booker Prize.
language: English
title: The Butcher Boy
titlecomplete: The Butcher Boy
characters: Bernard "Benny" Brady, Joseph Purcell, Philip Nugent, Buttsy, Aloysius "Alo" Brady, Francis "Francie" Brady, Devlin, Mrs. Nugent
genres: Ireland, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Horror, Classics, Irish Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 8989
places: Monaghan, Bundoran, County Donegal
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Irish Times Irish Literature Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Delta