Marabou Stork Nightmares
$21.27
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
3 May 1996
Summary
Extremely funny… As clever as Alasdair Gray, as elegant as Jeff Torrington, as passionate as James Kelman, Welsh has got it all
Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto.
But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy’s bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099435112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009943511X |
| Author: | Irvine Welsh |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 1996 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“A wonderful success: a funny, cleverly composed, genuinely exciting and assured leap of a novel.” -New Statesman
A superbly talented writer…anarchic and entirely invigorating * Scotsman *
A wonderful success: a funny, cleverly composed, genuinely exciting and assured leap of a novel * New Statesman *
Extremely funny… As clever as Alasdair Gray, as elegant as Jeff Torrington, as passionate as James Kelman, Welsh has got it all – Tibor Fischer
Mind-bendingly good * GQ *
Our most vital of contemporary authors * i-D *
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fifteen further novels, including the Sunday Times bestseller Men in Love and the Crime series, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.
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