The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe (1992)Read about another entry on Barra's list.
Is Patrick McCabe the illegitimate son of Flann O’Brien? This is as good a place as any to jump into his oeuvre. The Butcher Boy, shortlisted for the 1992 Man Booker Prize, won the Irish Times Literature Prize for Fiction the same year.
The Butcher Boy is on Nick Brooks's top 10 list of literary murderers, Declan Burke's 2008 top ten list of Irish crime fiction, and Edward Hogan's top ten list of stories set outside the city.
--Marshal Zeringue
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