The Butcher Boy

Name: The Butcher Boy
ISBN: 9780385312370

Patrick McCabe, MacCabe, Colin., Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan

1992·96 pages

Crime Horror

class and inequality classics dark family dynamics gritty haunting

Booker Prize (1992) · Nominee

“Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather.”
— The Washington Post

This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland.

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The Butcher Boy

Patrick McCabe, MacCabe, Colin., Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan

Booker Prize (1992) · Nominee

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1992

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Crime Horror Literary Fiction

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“Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather.”
— The Washington Post

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This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland.

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