The butcher boy

Description:

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 nominated for, and the winner of, major literary prizes, but McCabe's theatrical adaptation of the novel, Frank Pig Says Hello, was staged in Dublin with tremendous success, and a production is now planned for London's Royal Court theater.

subjects: Boys,  Family,  Fiction,  Ireland,  Mentally ill,  Families,  Fiction, psychological,  Ireland, fiction,  Mentally ill--ireland--fiction,  Families--ireland--fiction,  Boys--ireland--fiction,  Pr6063.c32 b87 1993,  823/.914,  Irish fiction,  novel,  Butcher boy (Motion picture : 1997),  Ireland, history,  Film adaptations,  In motion pictures,  Butcher boy (Motion picture),  Film and video adaptations,  Family life,  City and town life,  Fiction, general,  Murder,  Feature films,  Paranoia,  Drama,  Asylums,  Children of suicide victims,  Children of alcoholics,  Fiction. 650/3: 0:

People: Patrick McCabe,  Pat McCabe (1955-)

Places: Ireland

Times: 1960