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{{Short description|1998 novel by Patrick McCabe}}
{{for multi|the film adaptation|Breakfast on Pluto (film)}}
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| name          = Breakfast on Pluto
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| image         = PatrickMcCabe BreakfastOnPluto.jpg
| caption = First edition cover
| author        = [[Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe]]
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| country       = [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
| language      = [[English language|English]]
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| genre         = [[Novel]]
| publisher     = [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]]
| release_date  = 25 May 1998
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| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages         = 208 pp (first edition, hardback)
| isbn = 0-330-35293-8
| isbn_note = (first edition, hardback)
| congress      = ACQUISITION IN PROCESS  (COPIED)
| oclc= 39284951
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'''''Breakfast on Pluto''''' is a 1998 [[novel]] by [[Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe]]. The book was shortlisted for the 1998 [[Booker Prize]], and was adapted for the screen by McCabe and [[Neil Jordan]]; Jordan directed the [[Breakfast on Pluto (film)|2005 film]]. The author derived the novel's title from the 1969 hit record ''Breakfast On Pluto'' by [[Don Partridge]].

==Plot summary==
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Set in 1960s to 1970s, the novel tells of Patrick "Pussy" Braden's escape from the fictional Irish town of Tyreelin and a drunk [[foster mother]], to find herself and the biological mother who gave her away. Bad luck surrounds her until she finds temporary contentment with a married [[politician]] who acts as a [[wikt:sugar daddy|sugar daddy]]. The latter is killed by either the [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] or the [[Ulster Defence Volunteers]], leaving Braden alone once again. She 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.  She later embarks on a search to find her mother.

==Reception==
Upon release, ''Breakfast on Pluto'' was generally well-received among British press.<ref>{{cite news |title=Books of the moment: What the papers said |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/152435679/ |access-date=19 July 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=6 Jun 1998 |page=72}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Books of the moment: What the papers said |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph/151223002/ |access-date=19 July 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=24 Oct 1998 |page=78}}</ref>

==Film adaptation==
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Director [[Neil Jordan]]'s 2005 film adaptation of the same name starred [[Cillian 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 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 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 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.<ref name="UK MSN Entertainment News 11 February 2007">{{Cite web |url=http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/news/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=2907063 |title=Entertainment News {{!}} Breaking News {{!}} Celebrity Gossip - MSN Entertainment UK<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2007-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070217115254/http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/news/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=2907063 |archive-date=2007-02-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References==
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