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Description for The Big Yaroo
Paperback.
Sequel to the bestselling Butcher Boy, Francie Brady is back! Francie Brady, the broken Butcher Boy, leads a busy life in Fizzbag Mansions, where he was incarcerated five decades ago after the mistake with Mrs Nugent. Still obsessed with the comic books of his childhood, he has found a new vocation – as a publisher of his very own magazine, The Big Yaroo, and Francie throws himself into its production, working to a deadline in more ways than one. Along the way, he remembers Da, Uncle Alo, Joe Purcell and his beloved Ma, and wrestles a desire to escape his ... Read more
Sequel to the bestselling Butcher Boy, Francie Brady is back! Francie Brady, the broken Butcher Boy, leads a busy life in Fizzbag Mansions, where he was incarcerated five decades ago after the mistake with Mrs Nugent. Still obsessed with the comic books of his childhood, he has found a new vocation – as a publisher of his very own magazine, The Big Yaroo, and Francie throws himself into its production, working to a deadline in more ways than one. Along the way, he remembers Da, Uncle Alo, Joe Purcell and his beloved Ma, and wrestles a desire to escape his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781848407411
SKU
9781848407411
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-12
About Patrick McCabe
Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan. He is the author of The Butcher Boy (1992), 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 published in 2006, and was named the 2007 Hughes & Hughes/Irish Independent Irish Novel of the Year. His most ... Read more
Reviews for The Big Yaroo
In the years since we were first introduced to Francie, much has come to light about the institutional abuse that would have been inflicted on people like him, his family and his friends. That knowledge informs every chapter of this brilliantly dark book, as it is impossible not to wonder about all the other Francie Bradys we will never read ... Read more