{"product_id":"the-butcher-boy","title":"Patrick Mccabe: The Butcher Boy [2015] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Ross Raisin.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the troubles at home and getting up to mischief with his best friend Joe - hiding in the chicken-house, shouting abuse at fish in the local stream. But after a disagreement with his neighbour Mrs Nugent over her son's missing comic books, Francie's reckless streak spirals out of control and gives rise to a monstrous obsession . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFearless, shocking and blackly funny, Patrick McCabe's \u003ci\u003eThe Butcher Boy \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 1992 \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003eLiterature Prize and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. It is a modern classic of Irish fiction, a portrait of the insidious violence latent in small town life and of a frenzied young man lashing out at everyone, even himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mccabe, Patrick \u0026 Raisin, Ross","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44499603423522,"sku":"9781447275169","price":11.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52922353942867,"sku":"XV81447275169","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mccabe-patrick-raisin-ross-patrick-mccabe-the-butcher-boy-2015-paperback-9781447275169-60250738032979.jpg?v=1769793762","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-butcher-boy","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}