The Butcher Boy

Patrick McCabe

Original title: The butcher boy

earliest edition we have, 1992 Pan, 1992 paperback

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 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. 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? Not only was The Butcher Boy...

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Editions we hold

The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic (Picador Classics) edition · 2015 · Picador · 9781447275169
The Butcher Boy (Ireland into Film) paperback · 2007 · Cork University Press · 96 pages · 9781859182864
The butcher boy edition · 2007 · Warner Home Video · 110 pages
The Butcher Boy (Great Irish Writers, 7) hardcover · 2005 · Paperview Ltd. · 178 pages
The Butcher Boy audiobook · 1999 · Audioworks · 9780671775124
The Butcher Boy (Novels of the 87th Precinct) (Novels of the 87th Precinct) audiobook · 1999 · Sterling Audio Books · 9780754002994
Butcher Boy, the hardcover · 1998 · MacMillan · 215 pages · 9780330369565
The BUTCHER BOY audiobook · 1994 · Audioworks · 9780671887599
The butcher boy edition · 1994 · Dell · 231 pages
The Butcher Boy paperback · 1993 · Pan Macmillan · 272 pages · 9780330699945
The butcher boy edition · 1993 · Picador · 215 pages
The Butcher Boy paperback · 1992 · Pan · 9780330330176

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