Literary
Crime
1994
The butcher boy by Patrick McCabe
Published in Spanish as Butcher Boy, the
What it is
A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · it leaves you shaken
What happens in it
Unreliable narrator
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Who tells it
- First person
- Pulls you in with
- How it's written
- Style
- Literary
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you enjoy not trusting who's telling it
- how it's written matters to you as much as what happens
- you like a book that leaves you uneasy
Maybe not if…
- you're after something comforting
- you're not in the mood to cry
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