| Title : | Breakfast on Pluto | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Patrick McCabe, Author | | Publisher: | Picador | | Publication Date: | 1999 | | Pagination: | 200 p. | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-330-35294-9 | | Class number: | 823.914 | | Abstract: | Set in 1960s to 1970s, the novel tells of the trans woman Patrick 'Kitten" Braden's escape from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. Bad luck surrounds her until she finds temporary contentment with a married politician who acts as a sugar daddy. The latter is killed by either the IRA or the Ulster Defence Volunteers, leaving Braden alone once again. She moves to London, becomes a prostitute in Piccadilly Circus, and later is arrested on suspicion of an IRA bombing, only to be released in few days later. She later embarks on a search to find her mother. | | Contents note: | Breakfast on Pluto is a comedy-drama novel by Irish author Patrick McCabe, first published in 1998. The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize, and was adapted for the screen by McCabe and director Neil Jordan for a 2005 film. |
Breakfast on Pluto [printed text] / Patrick McCabe, Author . - [S.l.] : Picador, 1999 . - 200 p. ISBN : 978-0-330-35294-9 | Class number: | 823.914 | | Abstract: | Set in 1960s to 1970s, the novel tells of the trans woman Patrick 'Kitten" Braden's escape from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. Bad luck surrounds her until she finds temporary contentment with a married politician who acts as a sugar daddy. The latter is killed by either the IRA or the Ulster Defence Volunteers, leaving Braden alone once again. She moves to London, becomes a prostitute in Piccadilly Circus, and later is arrested on suspicion of an IRA bombing, only to be released in few days later. She later embarks on a search to find her mother. | | Contents note: | Breakfast on Pluto is a comedy-drama novel by Irish author Patrick McCabe, first published in 1998. The book was shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize, and was adapted for the screen by McCabe and director Neil Jordan for a 2005 film. |
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