Marabou Stork Nightmares
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Irvine Welsh
The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as "the best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade" (London Sunday Times). This audacious novel is a brilliant (and literal) head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork keeps being interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state. It is the sort of lethally funny cocktail of pathos, violence, and outrageous hilarity that only Irvine Welsh can pull off.
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Author
Irvine Welsh
Pages
264
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Date
1997
ISBN
0393315630 9780393315639
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"I read this book ages ago and it was the first thing that jumped to my mind with this prompt. I talked about it for ages and gave it away as gifts. Disturbing, hilarious, thoughtful and hilarious. "
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