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| Author | Patrick McCabe |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Picador |
Publication date | 25 May 1998 |
| Publication place | Ireland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback &Paperback) |
| Pages | 208 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-330-35293-8 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 39284951 |
| LC Class | ACQUISITION IN PROCESS (COPIED) |
Breakfast on Pluto is a 1998novel byPatrick McCabe. The book was shortlisted for the 1998Booker Prize, and was adapted for the screen by McCabe andNeil Jordan; Jordan directed the2005 film. The author derived the novel's title from the 1969 hit recordBreakfast On Pluto byDon Partridge.
Set in 1960s to 1970s, the novel tells of Patrick "Pussy" Braden's escape from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunkfoster mother, to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. Bad luck surrounds her until she finds temporary contentment with a marriedpolitician who acts as asugar daddy. The latter is killed by either theIRA or theUlster Defence Volunteers, leaving Braden alone once again. She moves toLondon, becomes aprostitute inPiccadilly Circus, and later is arrested on suspicion of an IRA bombing, only to be released a few days later. She later embarks on a search to find her mother.
DirectorNeil Jordan's 2005 film adaptation of the same name starredCillian Murphy in the central role. In the film, the main character is called "Kitten", not "Pussy", and there are other significant differences between the two versions of the characters, a central one being that the hypersexual Pussy is depicted explicitly as having sex with many male and female characters throughout the novel, while on screen Kitten is not shown even kissing another character on the lips.
Pussy's politician lover in the novel becomes a glam rock musician played byGavin Friday with whom Kitten may or may not have had a sexual relationship, and Pussy's lover Bertie Wooster becomes magician Bertie Vaughan (Stephen Rea), with whom Kitten has an unrequited flirtation.Liam Neeson plays thepriest that Braden believes is her biological father, a character renamed Father Liam, although a number of reviews erroneously call him Father Bernard, as in the book.
Cillian Murphy won anIFTA Award (2007) for BestActor and was nominated forGolden Globe (2006) as Best Actor in Musical or Comedy for his performance. Patrick McCabe and Neil Jordan won the IFTA for Best Script, and Jordan also won Best Director.[1]
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