The BUTCHER BOY (US Hardcover 1st.)
by McCABE, PATRICK
- New
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0880641479
- ISBN 13
- 9780880641470
- Seller
-
Brockville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: FROMM, 1993. Book. New. Hardcover. First Edition. HB - 1st. U.S. edition/1st. Print- NEW/NEW - Francie Brady is a disaffected, working-class, Roman Catholic teenager living in Northern Ireland. His alcoholic father works in the local slaughterhouse and his mother, despite being a whir of household efficiency, is suicidal. The latest phase of the "troubles" in Ireland have not yet formally begun--it is the early '60s--but Francie is nonetheless caught in a cycle of pride, envy and poverty aggravated by the ancient conflict between Protestants and Catholics. The book opens with Francie remembering: "When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent." By its end, young Francie has dispatched Mrs Nugent and earned his eponymous nickname. The Nugents, a prosperous Protestant family, have it all, in Francie's eyes: their son Philip goes to private school and takes music lessons; their home is carpeted and the telly works. Francie begins by playing pranks on the family--swindling Philip out of his comic books, defecating in their house when they are away. But when he bludgeons Philip's brother in a fight, Francie loses his closest friend, who then befriends the Nugent family. Then the violence escalates....
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Details
- Bookseller
- OUTSIDER ENTERPRISES (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007602
- Title
- The BUTCHER BOY (US Hardcover 1st.)
- Author
- McCABE, PATRICK
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0880641479
- ISBN 13
- 9780880641470
- Publisher
- FROMM
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Hardcover, 1st. Print, Horror, Modern Literature, The Butcher Boy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horror;
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About the Seller
OUTSIDER ENTERPRISES
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Brockville, Ontario
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- First Edition
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