Breakfast on Pluto

Dysfunctional Ireland in all its glories is here, with humour of the blackest hue, madness and violence, hopelessly randy priests, dodgy politicians, a grand gallery of misfits culminating in McCabe’s hero in Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick “Pussy” Braden, the transvestite prostitute from the village of Tyreelin … Wild, hilarious, merciless and fiendishly clever * Sunday Independent *
He is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books … dissect life’s miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel – Erica Wagner * The Times *
It finds humour in places that other writers are afraid to look for it – David Robson * Sunday Times *
A savagely funny and authentically tragic novel of an Ireland in unhappy transition and beneath McCabe’s perfectly delivered black comedy lies an angry heart * GQ Magazine *
Told with irresistible zest, brio and gaiety … McCabe’s brilliant, startling talent is to make enchantingly dashing narratives out of the most ghastly states of mind imaginable, and to induce compassion for lives which seem least to invite it … He is a dark genius of incongruity and the grotesque – Hermione Lee * Observer *

Patrick McCabe was born in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland in 1955.

He is the author of the children’s story The Adventures of Shay Mouse, and the novels Music on Clinton Street, Carn, The Butcher Boy (winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize), The Dead School, Breakfast on Pluto (shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize), Mondo Desperado, Emerald Germs of Ireland, and Call Me The Breeze.

He lives in Monaghan.

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