The Butcher Boy
ISBN:
9780330323581 (033032358X)
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Crime,
Horror,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness,
Dark
Last year the Booker prize winner was Milkman by Anna Burns and what a disappointing read that proved to be. Set in Belfast this was a book of gossip told in the first person by "middle sister" in a very claustrophobic and confusing style. Why should I tell you this? quite simply it is only to draw ...
Dwells on corporeal suffering to the point of unbelievability and/or tedium. Not that I don't believe poor Irish boys did what their priests demanded for cigarettes, but dwelling on the bare details began to seem pointless. Possibly revelatory for Irish or other readers who didn't know any better. D...
Tout allait bien jusqu'au jour où la télé a fait pfit !Puis il s'est arrêté un peu pour dire Euh ! Euh ! quelques instants en hochant la tête comme ces poupées de chiffon qu'on voit à l'arrière des voitures.On y a collé le nez mais y avait pas un oeil en bille de loto en vue. Désolé : je suis absent...
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