Marabou Stork Nightmares
  • Published: 3 May 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099435112
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
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Marabou Stork Nightmares

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3 May 1996
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'Extremely funny... As clever as Alasdair Gray, as elegant as Jeff Torrington, as passionate as James Kelman, Welsh has got it all' Tibor Fischer

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto.

But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption.
  • Published: 3 May 1996
  • ISBN: 9780099435112
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.99
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Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is the author of eleven previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.

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Praise for Marabou Stork Nightmares

A superbly talented writer...anarchic and entirely invigorating

Scotsman

A wonderful success: a funny, cleverly composed, genuinely exciting and assured leap of a novel

New Statesman

Extremely funny... As clever as Alasdair Gray, as elegant as Jeff Torrington, as passionate as James Kelman, Welsh has got it all

Tibor Fischer

Mind-bendingly good

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