Twelve kinds of taste
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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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Bleak, overwhelming, demanding and spare.
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“It. was. me. and. Jamieson.”
Scottish novelist
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