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Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh · Booklabria

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Marabou Stork Nightmares

PatientsScotland

Marabou Stork Nightmares

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First published: 1995
Editions: 12 in 2 languages

Synopsis

The making of a Scottish hooligan. He is Roy Strang, whose mother was a prostitute, the father a ruffian, and there was a pedophile uncle who played with him. He gets into wrong company, stabs a schoolmate, gang rapes a girl and becomes famous. One day he gets his just deserts. The tale is told in flashbacks as he lies in hospital in a coma. By the author of The Acid House.

Subjects: Patients
Scotland
Edinburgh
Coma
Set in: South Africa
Edinburgh

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12 in 2 languages

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