Two Books by Patrick McCabe
Requirements: MOBI/ePUB reader, 3.42mb (all)
Overview: Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer of mostly dark and violent novels of contemporary, often small-town, Ireland. His novels include The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written a children’s book (The Adventures of Shay Mouse) and several radio plays broadcast by the RTÉ and the BBC Radio 4. The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto have both been adapted into films by Irish director Neil Jordan. McCabe lives in Clones, Co. Monaghan with his wife and two daughters.
Genre: Fiction | Dark | Contemporary
Breakfast on Pluto: Conceived in a moment of mad passion by a randy Irish priest and his temporary housekeeper — and abandoned on a doorstep in a Rinso box as an infant — her ladyship "Pussy" (né Patrick) Braden grew up fabulous and escaped tiny Tyreelin, Ireland, to start life anew in London. In blousy tops and satin miniskirts she plies her trade as a transvestite rent boy on Picadilly’s Meat Rack, risking life and limb among the city’s flotsam and jetsam. But it is the 1970s, and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast — and as radioactive history approaches critical mass, the coming explosion of violence and tragedy may well blow Pussy’s fragile soul asunder.
The Butcher Boy: "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 you see what’s coming now — The Pig Family!"
This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-town Ireland. "Imagine Huck Finn crossed with Charlie Starkweather," said The Washington Post. Short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award and England’s prestigious Booker Prize.
Download Instructions:
Breakfast on Pluto – http://festyy.com/wZ8zaw
The Butcher Boy – http://festyy.com/wZ8zau
Mirrors:
Breakfast on Pluto – http://festyy.com/wZ8zas
The Butcher Boy – http://festyy.com/wZ8zaj
*links updated 07 Feb 17
