How long does it take to read The Butcher Boy?
Patrick McCabe, Colin MacCabe, Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe, Colin MacCabe, Redmond Morris, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan takes about 3 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 215 pages, about 59,125 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Francie Brady, the "pig boy," is growing up in a poor small Irish town in the early sixties, fueled on an adolescent's comic books, Flash Bars, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. He is determined to win the Francie Brady Not A Bad Bastard Anymore Diploma. But how do you do that when your mother is sent to the madhouse, your father is an alcoholic, and everyone turns their back on you? Not only was The Butcher Boy nominated for, and the winner of, major literary prizes, but McCabe's theatrical adaptation of the novel, Frank Pig Says Hello, was staged in Dublin with tremendous success, and a production is now planned for London's Royal Court theater.
Subjects: Boys, Family, Fiction, Ireland, Mentally ill, Families
