- Fiction, Coma, Patients, Scotland, fiction
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.
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About the book
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, VINTAGE (RAND), W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780393285215
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