The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe [FIRST EDITION / 1993]

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe 

FIRST EDITION / FOURTH PRINTING [1993] FROMM INTERNATIONAL 

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Light shelf wear to DJ.  Book is excellent and reads like new. 

"I was thinking how right ma was -- Mrs. Nugent all smiles when she met us and how are you getting on Mrs and young Francis are you both well? . . .what she was really saying was: Ah hello Mrs Pig how are you and look Philip do you see what's coming now -- The Pig Family!"

This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and the Man Booker Prize.   - Bookshop Apocalypse