The Butcher Boy

Patrick McCabe

Told by the inmate of a lunatic asylum, Francie Brady, The Butcher Boy is the story of the narrator's decline into madness and despair as a young lad in a small-town Irish community in the 1960s. Written from the margins of Irish society, Francie's story questions a common tendency to nostalgically look backwards to a highly idealised rural past in a time of rapid, and sometimes ruthless, social and economic change. Despite its sadness, it is one of the most raucous, earthy and horrifically hilarious stories to emerge from Ireland.

Picador 1992

Translated into: Spanish, Portuguese – Brazilian, Czech, Croatian, Finnish, Hungarian

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