Marabou Stork Nightmares
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Average rating3.5
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Ratings5
Average rating3.5
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.
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This was deeply, deeply disturbing, and so fascinating. I couldn't connect to the Stork parts as much as to Strang's life, and found myself waiting to jump back out of that narrative. But the style and the levels of consciousness were so well done, and the ending was a shock to me. Not for the faint of heart, but if it's for you it really works.
