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The Butcher Boy

By: Patrick Mccabe
Narrated by: Patrick Mccabe
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About this listen

 When I was a 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.

Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to unforgettably vivid life in this tour-de-force performance by author Patrick McCabe.

Francie Brady, the "pig boy," is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and John Wayne movies. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not a Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you?

Soon to be a major motion picture from Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game), and read with the bravura performance style that has earned McCabe raves on both sides of the Atlantic, The Butcher Boy is a stunning audio thriller. Coming of Age Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting

Critic reviews

"Lyrical and disturbing, horrific and hilarious." - The New York Times
"Startlingly original...viciously entertaining." - Washington Post Book World
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A beautifully written book depicting a heartbreaking perspective of a boy's life. I feel so much empathy for the main character.

beautifully written

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this is must listen to.you will go on the most shocking, horror, heartbreaking journey..my goodness what a classic..powerful story, an told with such honesty and feeling..

my heart is in tears

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