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Original Title:	Marabou Stork Nightmares
ISBN:	0393315630 (ISBN13: 9780393315639)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Roy Strang
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland South Africa

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Irvine Welsh

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 9822 Users | 341 Reviews

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Title	:	Marabou Stork Nightmares
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	January 17th 1997 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1995)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

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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). 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 hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork keeps being interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state. It is the sort of lethally funny cocktail of pathos, violence, and outrageous hilarity that only Irvine Welsh can pull off.

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the usual stomach-churning stuff, compelling as ever, and love the style it's written in but not one of my favourites.

Irvine Welsh was the literary hero among my generation of working-class Central Belt Scots for his graphic novels set in Edinburgh sink estates, riddled with sex, drugs, violence, and written in dextrously rendered phonetic dialect. I avoided reading Welsh, since a witless moron at my school rated Trainspotting his favourite book, and thereafter I associated him readers who would read his books to laugh at the banter of the characters, misunderstanding Welshs more sober intentions to expose the



In many ways, this book was brilliant: the structure of flitting between his coma state, memories of his childhood, and an African hunting fantasy. Also, the way he physically structures words on the page really conveys the polyphonic stream of consciousness of a person in a coma. And the Scottish phonetic spellings are just plain fun. That said, this book disturbed me as no other book has done--and not in a good way. I genuinely feel traumatized by it. It is not so much the fact that violent

Its about a coma patient who calls everyone a cunt as hes chasing a big stork through South Africa.

Turns out that Irvine Welsh is not a one-trick pony, he's a one and a half trick pony. He wowed us all with his filthy funny tales of Scottish smackheads in Trainspotting, one of the ALL time black comedies, they don't come any blacker or funnier, and then it was kind of - follow that. So this one does involve similar young Scottish druggies, but it has a plot, which emerges in a similar manner to the spring in Monty Python's Spring Surprise from the Crunchy Frog sketch :Health inspector: What's

Irvine Welsh's second novel is probably his best one, even better than Trainspotting. The story consists of Roy Strang, an oddball who's obsessed with birds, with the exception of Marabou Storks and invade his dreams.As Roy is growing up he encounters the usual trials, bullying, going out with girls, doing drugs etc. However his problems start when he devises a brutal form of revenge on the snobbiest girl at school. Early Welsh could do no wrong and with this book the scene shifts from the