| If You Liked School, You'll Love Work Contributor(s): Welsh, Irvine (Author) |
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ISBN: 039333077X ISBN-13: 9780393330779 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $24.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: From the author "Trainspotting" comes Welshs first short-story collection since his debut work "The Acid House." In typically Welshian fashion, the characters and settings in these five stories are anything but typical. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007014665 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.80 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Welsh, Irvine: - Irvine Welsh is the best-selling author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Skagboys, and, most recently, A Decent Ride. He currently lives in Chicago. T2 Trainspotting was first published as Porno. |