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"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary."
- Franklin P. Adams
(1881 - 1960)
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ZIN Product Number: 10007149
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 202 pages
Edition: 1st HarperPerennial Edition
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060931582
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Patrick McCabe blew critics and readers away with his novel The Butcher Boy, the story of Francie Brady, a working-class boy in Northern Ireland whose life becomes a violent storm. That novel won the 1992 Irish Times-Aer Lingus Award and was nominated for Britain's Booker Prize. McCabe has returned to Northern Ireland with his new novelBreakfast on Pluto, which in its own zany way is an Irish Breakfast at Tiffany's, with a goodly dose of "The Crying Game" thrown in. Starring Patrick "Pussy" Braden, a woman in a man's body who knows how to make magic in the squalid world around her, Breakfast on Pluto is a literary event. McCabe is truly coming into his own, and this new book is wild and wonderful.
| | | | From The Publisher
Patrick McCabe creates Mr. Patrick "Pussy" Braden, the enduringly and endearingly hopeful hero(ine) whose gutty survival and yearning quest for love resonate in and drive the glimmering, agonizing narrative in which the Troubles are a distant and immediate echo and refrain. As Breakfast on Pluto opens, her ladyship, resplendent in housecoat and head scarf, reclines in Kilburn, London, writing her story for the elusive psychiatrist Dr. Terence, paring her fingernails as she reawakens the truth behind her life and the chaos of long-ago days in a city filled with hatred. Twenty years ago, she escaped her hometown of Tyreelin, Ireland, fleeing her foster mother, Whiskers - prodigious Guinness-guzzler, human chimney - and her mad household (endless doorstep babas!), to begin a new life in London. There, in blousey tops and satin miniskirts, she plies her trade, often risking life and limb among the flotsam and jetsam who fill the bars of Piccadilly Circus ("You want love? That what you want, orphaned boy without a home? Then die for it! Die! Die, sweet Irish!). But suave businessmen and lonely old women are not the only dangers that threaten Pussy's existence. It is the 1970s, and fear haunts the streets of London and Belfast as the critical mass of history builds up, and Pussy is inevitably drawn into a maelstrom of violence and tragedy destined to blow his fragile soul asunder.
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Glam rock, don't forget glam rock
-- A reviewer, a Paul McCartney not Pat McCabe fan, January 5, 1999
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"Breakfast on Pluto is partly spoken and partly written by young Paddy 'Puss' Braden, a transvestite prostitute, as he negotiates, or blunders, his way through a world of corrupt and sexually ambiguous politicians, queasily lustful parish priests, gunmen, and bombers, protected only be his cheekiness and his Candide-like innocence"--NY Review of Books
| |  | | | Patrick McCabe blew critics and readers away with his novelThe Butcher Boy, the story of Francie Brady, a working-class boy in Northern Ireland whose life becomes a violent storm. That novel won the 1992 Irish Times-Aer Lingus Award and was nominated for Britain's Booker Prize. McCabe has returned to Northern Ireland with his new novel,Break on Pluto, which in its own zany wayis and ,Breakfast Tiffany's with a goodly dose of "The Crying Game" thrown in. Starring Patrick "Pussy" Braden, a woman in a man's body who knows how to make magic in the squalid world around her,Breakfast on Pluto is a literary event. McCabe is truly coming into his own, and this new book is wild and wonderful.
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