Marabou stork nightmares

a novel

264 pages

English language

Published 1996 by W.W. Norton & Co..

ISBN:
978-0-393-03845-3
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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.

11 editions

Subjects

  • Coma -- Patients -- Fiction.
  • Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.