MCCABE, Patrick. The Butcher Boy. London: Picador and Pan Books. 1992. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the menacing dust jacket. A fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (£14.99) and fine.
A marvellous, harrowing, disturbing novel of the protagonist and narrator’s own descent into madness, with lots of blood, porcine and human. It won Ireland’s highest literary award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, allowing a fresh and ready-to-be-disturbed audience for McCabe.
MCCABE, Patrick. The Butcher Boy. London: Picador and Pan Books. 1992. 8vo. First edition, first printing. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in green to the spine, in the menacing dust jacket. A fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (£14.99) and fine.
A marvellous, harrowing, disturbing novel of the protagonist and narrator’s own descent into madness, with lots of blood, porcine and human. It won Ireland’s highest literary award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, allowing a fresh and ready-to-be-disturbed audience for McCabe.
