Patrick McCabe
Patrick McCabe, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called "one of the most brilliant writers ever to come out of Ireland," presents another compelling novel of small-town Ireland that leaves its indelible mark on the canon of classic fiction. [... more]
Random House |
Patrick McCabe
Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1955. His other novels include The Butcher Boy, The Dead School, and Call Me the Breeze. With director Neil Jordan, he co-wrote the screenplay for the film version of The Butcher Boy. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Winterwood: A Novel
 Into the valley of shadow, once again: This is the fifth novel I've read of his; you can find my reviews of "The Dead School," "The Butcher Boy," "Breakfast on Pluto," and "Call Me the Breeze" on Amazon US. By now, [... more]
$23.95
Amazon.com |
Breakfast on Pluto: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: Patrick McCabe hit pay dirt with his third novel, The Butcher Boy, which was short-listed for the 1992 Booker Prize, filmed by Neil Jordan, and acclaimed as "a masterpiece of literary ventriloquism." In his fifth, Breakfast [... more]
$13.95
Amazon.com |
The Butcher Boy
Amazon.com Review: "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 [... more]
$15.00
Amazon.com |
The Dead School
Amazon.com Review: "All it takes is one thing to go wrong and then--well everything else decides to follow suit I'm afraid. Mr Sun, who a minute before was saying, 'Hello! I'm Mr Sun! I'm your friend on this happy picnic day!' is opening up a big [... more]
$11.95
Amazon.com |
Call Me the Breeze: A Novel
Call this a snooze: McCabe's best novels, "Butcher Boy" and "Breakfast on Pluto," managed to convince you that, despite the melodramatic and even ridiculous predicaments that the twisted cartoonish narrators were placed in by their [... more]
$13.95
Amazon.com |
Mondo Desperado: A Serial Novel
Amazon.com Review: You may not have heard of Phildy Hackball, but thanks to Patrick McCabe--and, we're told, to "an ingenue of an English publisher who had never been in Ireland before"--you're about to get your chance. Hackball is the putative [... more]
$13.00
Amazon.com |
Breakfast On Pluto
Amazon.com Review: Patrick McCabe hit pay dirt with his third novel, The Butcher Boy, which was short-listed for the 1992 Booker Prize, filmed by Neil Jordan, and acclaimed as "a masterpiece of literary ventriloquism." In his fifth, Breakfast [... more]
$22.00
Amazon.com |
Carn
The heart of Ireland unvailed: Patrick McCabe is one of the more extroadinary writers to emmerge from Ireland in recent times, anybody who experienced his sadistic tale, The Butcher's Boy will understand what I mean by this. In Carn, he beautifully [... more]
$15.00
Amazon.com |
Emerald Germs of Ireland
Why...why was this book written???: I read about 8 books a month, all different genres and have done this for most of my life. As a voracious reader I have tastes that range from the sublime to the ridiculous, but this book fit in none of those [... more]
$13.95
Amazon.com |
Open City #3
Author: Richard Yates Author: Patrick McCabe Author: Irvine Welsh Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781890447144 ISBN: 1890447145 Number Of Pages: 136 Publication Date: 2001-12-04 [... more]
$8.00
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