If You Liked School, You'll Love Work (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393330779)

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.

Author: Irvine Welsh
ISBN-10: 039333077X
ISBN-13: 9780393330779
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/30/2007 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2007 pg. 825
Library Journal 08/01/2007 pg. 78
New York Times Book Review 09/30/2007 pg. 20