Satire and Trauma in Patrick McCabe’s <em>The Butcher Boy</em>
The Butcher Boy (1992) is the third novel by Northern Irish author Patrick McCabe. It tells the story of 12-year-old Francie Brady and is set in the small town of Clones, in western County Monaghan, Ireland in the early 1960s. The town was badly hit economically by the partition of Ireland in 1921 b...
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Firenze University Press
2017-06-01
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| Series: | Studi Irlandesi |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7298 |