Marabou stork nightmares / a novel by Irvine Welsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welsh, Irvine.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coma--Patients--Scotland--Edinburgh--Fiction.

Coma.

Coma--Patients.

Scotland--Edinburgh.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

264 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Norton, 1996.

Summary:

In a hospital room in Edinburgh Roy Strang lies in a coma - which doesn't save him from reliving the sordid developments that brought him to this state. He seems at times to be engaged in a strange quest in a surrealistic Africa to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird the marabou stork before it drives away the peace-loving flamingos from Lake Torto. But Roy's hallucinatory adventures keep being interrupted by troubling memories of his bizarre family, the housing project in which he grew up, a disastrous emigration to South Africa and his youthful life of casual brutality as a club-hopping soccer thug. Meanwhile his parents and his nurse bombard his inert form with inane conversation, even more inane pop music, and intimate massage...

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0393038459

OCLC:

32820873