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

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

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A masterpiece of style and characterization, Maribou Stork Nightmares is rife with poignant themes which are extremely relevant today, and perhaps will always be. Welsh has simultaneously written in a way that is blatant with its symbolism, but layered to make the text enjoyable and accessible to readers of all levels. The phonetic spelling of the Scottish accent sprinkled throughout is tough to discern at first but reading comes with ease after a chapter or two, so I highly recommend pushing

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

I was always drunk on stolen Vodka when I read this, so my appraisal would not necessarily be reliable....Or maybe it would be much more so than normal.

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

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

3.5 *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. The account soon shifts to Roys working-class upbringing in Scotland and South Africa; an upbringing marred by a dysfunctional family and abuse. We follow Roy through to early adulthood. Along the way are escapades, brutality, bullying, girls, drinking, bird watching,