Slipping the chocolate bar into his hand, as we lay there together beneath the tall pines, before looking up to see them falling: the very first flakes of the most beautiful winter snow.
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Patrick McCabe was born in Ireland in 1955. His
novels include Music on Clinton Street, Cam,
The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, both of
which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
The Butcher Boy won the Irish Times/Aer Lingus
Literature Prize in 1992 and was made into a film,
directed by Neil Jordan, in 1997. The film
Breakfast on Pluto, also directed by and co-written
with Neil Jordan, was released in 2006, to great
acclaim. Patrick McCabe lives in his home town of
Clones, County Monaghan.
Linotype Garamond Three - based on seventeenth
century copies of Claude Garamond's types, cut
by Jean Jannon. This version was designed for
American Type Founders in 1917, by Morris
Fuller Benton and Thomas Maitland Cleland and
adapted for mechanical composition by Linotype
in 1936.