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Irvine Welsh (Author)
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.
Number of Pages: 400Dimensions: 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 INPublication Date: September 01, 2007
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