Ireland Into Film: The Butcher Boy (Paperback)

from Curtisclennon

This is a wonderful novel that charts the disintegration of an intelligent, all-too-conscious of his declasse position, even within the confines, or maybe, more pronounced because of, his living in a small village. A strange likeability hovers around the main character. I don't know if other read...

from lkernagh

"I climbed in the back of the chickenhouse and just stood in there in that woodchip world listening to the scrabbling of the claws on tin and the fan purring away keeping the town going. When we were in there me and Joe used to think: Nothing can ever go wrong. But it wasn't like that any more." ...

from ursula

I had seen the movie version of this book before reading it. And although I don't remember the movie entirely, it did prepare me for some of what to expect. I imagine going into this one cold would be a bit of a wild ride. We're thrust into the mind of Francie Brady, a young Irish boy who lives i...

from starbox

"A Beckett monologue with a plot by Alfred Hitchcock", 18 June 2015 This review is from: The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic (Paperback) Narrated by the seriously disturbed - yet curiously empathetic - Francie Brady, as he recalls his youth: "When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ag...

from DeborahJ2016

Disturbing as all h***. Hard to finish, but amazing and scary-sad.