The butcher boy
By: Patrick McCabe.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fromm International Pub. Corp.
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction; Ireland -- Fiction
Description: Francie Brady, the "pig boy," is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not A Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you?

Not only was The Butcher Boy nominated for, and the winner of, major literary prizes, but McCabe's theatrical adaptation of the novel, Frank Pig Says Hello, was staged in Dublin with tremendous success, and a production is now planned for London's Royal Court theater.
Notes: "First published in the United Kingdom in 1992 by Pan Books Limited"--T.p. verso.