Marabou Stork Nightmares
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393315630 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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"For anyone who gets high on language, this book is a fantastic tripa real tour de force."Madison Smartt Bell, Spin 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). It is the sort of lethally funny cocktail of pathos, violence, and outrageous hilarity that only Irvine Welsh can pull off.. 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
to South Africa ("Sooth Efrikay" in the novel's endemic Scotch), where young Roy encounters a right-wing, child-molesting uncle as well as the Marabou Stork, a vicious predator-scavenger. . Welsh expertly handles these realistically brutal episodes, from Roy's knifing of a schoolmate just to establish himself, through adult pub-wrecking. First serial to Grand Street. The LSD and heroin of the author's previous works (a story collection, The Acid House; a novel, Trainspotting) have changed into the hospital-bed fantasies and hallucinations of the comatose Roy Strang, but the flashbacked details of his damaged childhood and hool
The flowering of a sociopath Mr. Cairene Irvine Welsh doesn't just write words, he directs them, places them and arranges them into attention grabbing, authentic sounding and stylish prose. More amazing is the fact that this whole novel reads like the uncensored thoughts streaming from a brain of a very troubled individual. His writing resembles a film direc. "My Favorite Irvine Welsh Book" according to Logan Ryan Smith. Irvine Welsh is one of my favorite authors of all time. And this is my favorite book of his. His earlier books tended to go significantly darker than his later ones, and MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES is no exception. In fact, while FILTH and TRAINSPOTTING are extremely dark, this one tops it. And it tops it in incredibly i. "engaging storyline in a well-crafted novel that examines a m" according to eakarl@yahoo.com. Hailed widely as the top writer in the "Edinburgh Beats" scene, Irvine Welsh has proven his accolades are well-deserved in his third novel. Conveyed primarily through the thoughts of the comatose Roy Strang, the novel ingenuously weaves together several engaging story lines through crackling dialogue and a series of a