If You Liked School You'll Love Work
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If You Liked School You'll Love Work is a collection of short stories from novelist Irvine Welsh
. It was released in the UK on 5 July 2007, and in the U.S. on 4 September 2007.
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. His work is characterised by raw Scottish dialect, and brutal depiction of the realities of Edinburgh life...
. It was released in the UK on 5 July 2007, and in the U.S. on 4 September 2007.
Stories
- "Rattlesnakes"-- Three young Americans find themselves in dire circumstances in the desert, when one of them receives a snakebite on the genitals.
- "If You Liked School You'll Love Work..."-- Expatriate English publican juggles business, family and women, on the Canary Islands.
- "The DOGS of Lincoln Park"-- American yuppies and a Korean chef collide.
- "Miss Arizona"-- Struggling independent filmmaker follows in the footsteps of his hero, only to find himself much closer than he imagined.
- "Kingdom of Fife"-- Scottish SubbuteoSubbuteoSubbuteo is a set of table top games simulating team sports such as association football, cricket, both codes of rugby and hockey. The name is most closely associated with the football game, which for many years was marketed as "the replica of Association Football".The "Subbuteo" name is derived...
player and ex-jockey, Jason King, seeks love and destiny amid a background of corruption and loss in this novellaNovellaA novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
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