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| | The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe - Books - Random House |
 | | The bleak, eerie voice belongs to Francie Brady, the "pig boy," the only child of and alcoholic father and a mother driven mad by despair. |
 | | Nugent, a paragon of middle-class values, and dropped by his best friend, Joe, in favor of her mamby-pamby son, Francie finally has a target for his rage--and a focus for his twisted, horrific plan. |
 | | Dark, haunting, often screamingly funny, The Butcher Boy chronicles the pig boy's ominous loss of innocence and chilling descent into madness. |
| www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?0-385-31237-7 (237 words) |
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