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Irvine Welsh's first short-story collection since his debut work The Acid House presents five extraordinary stories, which remind us that he is a master of the short form, a brilliant storyteller, and-unarguably-one of today's funniest and most subversive writers. In "Rattlesnakes" three young Americans, lost in the desert, are accosted by two armed Mexicans. A Korean chef and a Chicago socialite find themselves connected through the disappearance of a pooch named Toto in "The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park." And in the title story, Mickey Baker-an ex-pat English bar owner living on the Costa Brava-tries to keep all of his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid's weight at the sexual maximum, attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging his ex-wife and Spanish gangsters. In typically Welshian fashion, the characters and settings are anything but typical. These stories will make you laugh and gasp.
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"Vigorous, stunningly funny...whimsical, warm, surreal, grotesque and brilliant" (Guardian)
"Irvine Welsh is a terrific mimic... This collection of stories is a chorus of voices - rude, rough, discordant, filthy and often very, very funny. It's a pleasure to watch him larking about with the language... Brilliant" (The Times)
"This new collection is a rambunctious return to the glory days of Trainspotting... Dazzlingly diverse... Sick and vigorous, written with Welsh's inimitable in-yer-face energy" (Sunday Telegraph)
"This smutty, macabre collection exudes a compelling energy" (Daily Mail)
"Scary, erotic and extremely funny" (Literary Review)
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"Irvine Welsh is a terrific mimic... This collection of stories is a chorus of voices - rude, rough, discordant, filthy and often very, very funny. It's a pleasure to watch him larking about with the language... Brilliant" (The Times)
"This new collection is a rambunctious return to the glory days of Trainspotting... Dazzlingly diverse... Sick and vigorous, written with Welsh's inimitable in-yer-face energy" (Sunday Telegraph)
"This smutty, macabre collection exudes a compelling energy" (Daily Mail)
"Scary, erotic and extremely funny" (Literary Review)
Five short stories from the undisputed funniest and filthiest writer in Britain - Irvine Welsh.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 039333077X
- ISBN 13 9780393330779
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- Number of pages400
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