by Patrick McCabe · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330375337
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«Breakfast on Pluto» is the novel by Patrick McCabe, published in 1998 by Picador in paperback (200 pages, in English).
Patrick «Pussy» Braden, a young transvestite raised in the Irish village of Tyreelin, moves to London in the 1970s in search of his mother. The novel places him amid the climate of political violence shaking Northern Ireland and the British capital, and turns his journey into a portrait of identity, gender and belonging.
Irish author Patrick McCabe was born in 1955. The novel was originally published in 1998 and is set in the 1970s.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in Irish narrative and characters living on the margins.
Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both of which have been made into films.
