Marabou stork nightmares

a novel

264 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 1997 by W.W. Norton.

ISBN:
978-0-393-31563-9
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OCLC Number:
36429347

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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.

4 editions

Subjects

  • Coma
  • Patients
  • Fiction

Places

  • Edinburgh (Scotland)