Breakfast on Pluto

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 200. Black cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine; black endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's fifth novel. Short-listed for the 1998 Booker Prize. A 1998 New York Times Notable Book. The tale of Patrick "Pussy" Braden, a kid who escapes his Irish foster home and ends up plying his trade as a transvestite rent boy on Piccadilly's Meat Rack. The Troubles are both a distant and immediate echo and refrain in the book's narrative. A #1 bestseller in Ireland, it was the basis for the 2005 motion picture of the same name by Neil Jordan, starring Cillian Murphy and Liam Neeson.

"Breakfast on Pluto may be the most successful book yet to be born out of the violence [in Northern Ireland]... Stunning originality." –New York Times Book Review