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Marabou Stork Nightmares

by Irvine Welsh

Marabou Stork Nightmares

Paperback, 264 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $13.95 | purchase

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While lying in a coma in an Edinburgh hospital, Roy Strang experiences strange hallucinatory adventures that recount how he came to be in his current state, from his struggles with his disturbed family to a bizarre quest in Africa

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