If You Liked School, You'll Love Work - Softcover

Welsh, Irvine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224075888 ISBN 13: 9780224075886

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2007

Synopsis

In his first short-story collection since The Acid House, Irvine Welsh sets us five tricky questions.

In 'Rattlesnakes' how do three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, and why does one find himself performing fellatio on another while being watched by the bare-breasted Madeline and two armed Mexicans?

Who is the mysterious Korean chef who has moved upstairs to Chicago socialite Kendra Cross, in 'The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park', and what does he have to do with the disappearance of her faithful pooch Toto?

In the title story, can Mickey Baker - an expat English bar-owner ducking and diving on the Costa Brava - manage to keep all his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid Cynthia's body weight at the sexual maximum while attending to the youthful Persephone and dodging his persistent ex-wife and a pair of Spanish gangsters?

By what train of events does Raymond Wilson Butler, writing a biography of a legendary US film director in 'Miss Arizona' come to end up as a piece of movie memorabilia?

And how, in the novella 'The Kingdom of Fife' will Jason King - diminutive ex-trainee jockey and Subbuteo star of Cowdenbeath - fare in the world of middle-class female equestrians, and will he ever enjoy the tender and long-anticipated charms of Jenni Cahill and her remarkable jodhpurs?

All of these questions are posed, and answered, in these five extraordinary stories: stories that remind us that Irvine Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller, and - unarguably - one of the funniest and filthiest writers in Britain.

About this title

Review:

`The voices are pitched perfectly, particularly in the title story.'
-- Mary Fitzgerald, Newstatesman

'I haven't read anything so entertaining fiction wise for a long
time... Irresistibly funny... Irvine Welsh is superbly comic'
-- Scottish Review of Books

'I hold Irvine Welsh in higher regard than any living Scottish
writer...Welsh excels at the short form.' -- Scotland on Sunday

'Welsh's narrative control is so expert that he can elevate
anything.' -- Literary Review

`This is vintage Welsh with a twist.'
-- The Herald

Book Description:

Five short stories from the undisputed funniest and filthiest writer in Britain - Irvine Welsh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0224075888
• ISBN 13: 9780224075886
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400