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Marabou Stork Nightmares is an experimental novel by Irvine Welsh, and his second novel, published in the UK in 1995. The book's narrative is split into two styles: a conventional first-person account of the past and a more surreal, stream-of-consciousness account of an otherworldly present.
- Irvine Welsh
- 1995
Jan 1, 2001 · Marabou stork nightmares follows Roy Strang who is in a coma. We see the fantasy world he has created, the memories of his past that slowly creep back and the discussions he can hear happing around his hospital bed.
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Aug 12, 2012 · Marabou Stork Nightmares is Welsh’s first proper novel – Trainspotting and The Acid House being short story collections. It tells the story of Roy Strang, who shares many of the same interests as Trainspotting’s Renton - a resident of Edinburgh's housing schemes, a fan of Hibernian FC, and a highly intelligent working class man.
Jan 1, 1996 · MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES. by Irvine Welsh ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1996. bookshelf. shop now. Welsh, Scotland's brightest young literary rebel (The Acid House, stories, p. 181), weighs in with a technically dazzling and emotionally wrenching portrait of working-class youth wasted in an emotional vacuum. Roy Strang, in his early 20s, enters the ...
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Jan 17, 1997 · Marabou Stork Nightmares. Irvine Welsh. W. W. Norton & Company, Jan 17, 1997 - Fiction - 288 pages. "For anyone who gets high on language, this book is a fantastic trip...a real tour de...
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh – Reviewed by Guy Portman. Roy Strang narrates this story from the hospital in which he is lying in a coma. It begins in South Africa, where he and his friend Sandy Jamieson are hunting the environmental havoc-wreaking, scavenger/predator marabou stork.
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Summary. 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.
