Marabou stork nightmares
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780393315639; 9780393038453
Subjects: Coma; Patients; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally published: London : Cape, 1995.