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When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a smalltown where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent.Thus begins Patrick McCabes shattering novel The Butcher Boy a powerful andunrelenting journey into the heart of darkness. The bleak eerie voice belongsto Francie Brady the pig boy the only child of and alcoholic father and amother driven mad by despair. Growing up in a soulstifling Irish town Francieis bright lovestarved and unhinged his speech filled with street talk hisheart filled with pain...his actions perfectly monstrous.Held up for scorn by Mrs. Nugent a paragon of middleclass values and droppedby his best friend Joe in favor of her mambypamby son Francie finally has atarget for his rageand a focus for his twisted horrific plan.Dark haunting often screamingly funny The Butcher Boy chronicles the pigboys ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness. No writersince James Joyce has had such marvelous control of rhythm and language... andno novel since The Silence Of The Lambs has stunned us with such a macabredangerous mind. «
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