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� Ronan Farren, 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 Telegraph� �This is 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� �Without drawing breath, McCabe mixes camp comedy with brutality, making Breakfast on Pluto both funny and deeply shocking� Maxim ��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 Paperback , 224 pages � � � � � � �Published October 6th 1999 by Harper Perennial (first published May 25th 1998) A drag queen's adventures as a member of the Irish Republican Army. He is Patrick Braden, born of an affair his mother had with a priest, and he works as a prostitute in a small town. Tired of the violence around him he flees to London, only to be recruited by the IRA as a bomber. By the author of Carn