Marabou Stork Nightmares

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Coma,  Patients,  Scotland, fiction,  Edinburgh (scotland), fiction,  Fiction, general

Places: Edinburgh (Scotland),  South Africa