Patrick McCabe has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators. The most-rated is Slagterdrengen.
The Stray Sod Country
Summary
It is 1958, and as Laika, the Sputnik dog, is launched into space, Golly Murray, the Cullymore barber's wife, finds herself oddly obsessing about the canine cosmonaut. Meanwhile, Fonsey "Teddy" O'Neill is returning, like the prodigal son, from overseas, with Brylcreem in his hair and a Cuban-heeled swagger to his step, having experienced his coming-of-age in Skegness, England. Father Augustus Hand is working on a bold new theatrical production for Easter, which he, for one, knows will put Cullymore on the map. And, as the Manchester United football team prepares to take off from Munich airport, James A. Reilly sits in his hovel by the lake outside town, with his pet fox and his father's gun, feeling the weight of an insidious and inscrutable presence pressing down upon him. As these imperiled characters wrestle with their identities, a mysteriously powerful narrator plucks, gently, at the strings of their fates, and watches the twitching response. This novel is a devil's-eye view of a lost era, a sojourn to the dark side of our past, one we may not have come back from. With echoes of Peyton Place and Fellini's Amarcord, and with a sinister narrator at its heart, this is at once a story of a small town - with its secrets, fears, friendships, and betrayals - and a sweeping, theatrical extravagance from one of the finest writers of his generation.
©2010 Patrick McCabe (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
The Holy City
Summary
Now entering his 67th year, Chris McCool can confidently call himself a member of the Happy Club: he has an attractive and exceedingly accommodating Croatian girlfriend and has been told he bears more than a passing resemblance to Roger Moore. As he looks back on the glory days of his youth, he recalls the swinging 60s of rural Ireland: a decade in which the cool cats sang along to Lulu and drove around in Ford Cortinas, when swinging meant wearing velvet trousers and shirts with frills, and where Dolores McCausland - Dolly Mixtures to those who knew her best - danced on the tops of tables and set the pulses of every man in small-town Cullymore racing. Chris McCool had it all back then. He had the moves, he had the car, and he had Dolly, a woman who purred suggestive songs and tugged gently at her skin-tight dresses, a Protestant femme fatale who was glamorous, transgressive, and who called him her very own 'Mr Wonderful'. She was, in short, the answer to this bastard son of a Catholic farmer's prayers. Except that there was another Mr Wonderful in town, a certain Marcus Otoyo - a young Nigerian with glossy curls and a dazzling devoutness that was all but irresistible. Although Chris, of course, was interested in Marcus only because of their shared religious fervour and mutual appreciation of the finer things. That was all. Besides, Mr McCool was always a hopeless romantic - some even described him as excessively so - but is there anything wrong with that?
©2010 Patrick McCabe (P)2010 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Winterwood
Summary
Highly acclaimed suspense writer Patrick McCabe has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize for both The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. In Winterwood, Redmond Hatch takes his family on vacation to the secluded mountains where he grew up, only to have his life shattered by a disastrous chain of events that quickly spirals out of control.
©2006 Patrick McCabe (P)2007 Recorded Books
Slagterdrengen
Summary
Francie vokser op i en lille irsk by i begyndelsen af 1960’erne. Som de fleste drenge er han optaget af fjernsynets helte, slik og hemmelige huler. Noget forandres dog, da drengen Philip Nugent kommer ind i hans liv. Philip fascinerer Francie med sin perfekte samling af tegneserier og sin fine nodetaske. Men Philips familie ser ned på Francie og hans ophav. De bryder sig hverken om hans fordrukne far eller hans deprimerede mor. De kalder dem en 'svinefamilie med svinemanerer' og langsomt forvandles Francies fascination af familien Nugent til had og misundelse. Da Francies mor begår selvmord og Francie får skylden er der ingen vej tilbage. Francie forsvinder længere og længere ind i sin egen forstyrrede verden... Den irske forfatter Patrick McCabe (f. 1955) er kendt for sine dystre og til tider voldelige romaner, der udspiller sig i samtidens Irland. Han har været nomineret til den prestigefulde Booker-pris to gange, første gang i 1992 for romanen "Slagterdrengen" og anden gang i 1998 for "Morgenmad på Pluto".
©2020 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Mich Vraa (P)2020 Lindhardt og Ringhof