Breakfast on Pluto

First edition cover
Author	Patrick McCabe
Country	Ireland
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Picador
Publication date	25 May 1998
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	208 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-330-35293-8 (first edition, hardback)

For the film adaptation, please see Breakfast on Pluto (film)

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Plot summary

Set in 1960s to 1970s, the novel tells of the transgendered Patrick "Pussy" Braden's escape from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk foster mother, to find himself and the biological mother who gave him away. Bad luck surrounds him until he finds temporary contentment with a married politician who acts as a sugar daddy. The latter is killed by either the IRA or the Ulster Defence Volunteers, leaving Braden alone once again. He moves to London, becomes a prostitute in Piccadilly Circus, and later is arrested on suspicion of an IRA bombing, only to be released a few days later. He later embarks on a search to find his mother and is successful. Transgender is generally used as a catch-all umbrella term for a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups centered around the full or partial reversal of gender roles; however, compare other definitions below. ... Foster care is a system by which adults care for minor children who are not able to live with their parents. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... Look up Sugar daddy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the historical army of the Irish Republic (1919–1922) which fought in the Irish War of Independence 1919–21, and the Irish Civil War 1922–23. ... The Ulster Defence Volunteers (UDV) and later the Ulster Home Guard were a force recruited by the Government of Northern Ireland to perform the role of the British Home Guard in Northern Ireland during World War II. The UDV was recruited following the formation of the Home Guard in Britain... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Film adaptation

Director Neil Jordan's 2005 film adaptation starred Cillian Murphy in the central role. In the novel, the main character is called "Pussy," not "Kitten," 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. Neil Jordan (born February 25, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning Irish filmmaker and novelist. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... Cillian[1] Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Irish film and theatre actor active since 1996. ...

Pussy's politician lover in the novel becomes a glam rock musician played by Gavin 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 the priest that Braden believes is his biological father, a character renamed Father Liam, although a number of reviews erroneously call him Father Bernard, as in the book. Gavin Friday (born Fionan Martin Hanvey, 8 October 1959, Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter, composer and painter. ... Stephen Rea (born October 31, 1946) is an Irish actor. ... William John Liam Neeson OBE (born June 7, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Cillian Murphy won an IFTA Award (2007) for Best Actor and was nominated for Golden 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] The IFTA Award (Irish Film & Television Award) first appeared in 1999. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...

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