{"product_id":"butcher-boy-patrick-mccabe-9781035065226","title":"Butcher Boy","description":"A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.\nWhen 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.\nFrancie 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 . . .\nFearless, shocking and blackly funny, Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy won the 1992 Irish Times Literature 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.\nNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49955133456672,"sku":"9781035065226","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781035065226.jpg?v=1785267693","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/butcher-boy-patrick-mccabe-9781035065226","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}