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Breakfast on PlutoPatrick McCabe

Breakfast on Pluto

1999202 pages
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11 editions · 3 languages
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Set in the politically tumultuous London of the 1970s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the misadventures of Patrick "Pussy" Braden, a transvestite prostitute on a quest to find love and a place to call home. Pussy narrates his own story, occasionally pausing to direct comments at Dr. Terence, the psychiatrist who suggested he write it. Born in the border town of Tyreelin, Ireland in the mid 1950s, Pussy is the product of an encounter between the village priest and his beautiful teenaged housekeeper. Abandoned by his mother and unable to contact his father, Pussy is raised by "Whiskers," a…

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11 editions · 3 languages
  • Paperback · English · 2006
    Breakfast on Pluto. Film Tie-In
    Macmillan Publishers Ltd · 208 pages · 9780330445078
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Breakfast on Pluto tie-in
    Harper Perennial · 224 pages · 9780061121869
  • Audiobook · English · 1999
    HarperAudio · 9780694521319
  • Other · English · 2011
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780062031334
  • Other · English · 1999
    Picador · 200 pages · 9780330375337
  • Other · English · 1999
    Harper Perennial · 202 pages · 9780060931582
EnglandFictionGay youthIrishIrish fictionMale prostitutesTerrorismTransvestites