The acclaimed author of the cult classics and, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as "The best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade" (London ). This audacious novel is a brilliant (and literal) head trip of a...The acclaimed author of the cult classics and, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as "The best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade" (London ). This audacious novel is a brilliant (and literal) head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of roy strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork keeps being interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state.