{"product_id":"patrick-mccabe-the-butcher-boy-2025","title":"Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy [2025]","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mccabe, Patrick","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52807925039443,"sku":"9781035065226","price":14.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/mccabe-patrick-patrick-mccabe-the-butcher-boy-2025-9781035065226-1217142004.jpg?v=1768681510","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/patrick-mccabe-the-butcher-boy-2025","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}