The Big Yaroo
Francie Brady, the broken Butcher Boy, leads a busy life in Fizzbag Mansions, where he has been incarcerated since Mrs Nugent met her unfortunate end. Still obsessed with the comic books and fantasy world of his childhood, he has found a new métier - as a publisher of his very own magazine, The Big Yaroo. As Francie throws himself into its production, he is revisited by characters from his past including Uncle Alo, Joe Purcell and of course his beloved mother. Caught between a desire to escape his past and a need to exorcise his terrible childhood demons, Francie struggles to build his fledgling career, but is increasingly drawn into the dark…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84840-742-8
- EAN: 9781848407428
- Produktnummer: 33151910
- Verlag: New Island Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 250 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'676 KB
Über den Autor
Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan. He is the author of The Butcher Boy, which won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction; The Dead School; Breakfast on Pluto and others. The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Winterwood was the 2007 Hughes & Hughes/Irish Independent Irish Novel of the Year.
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