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      If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

      by Irvine Welsh
      Published
      Sep 2007
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      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.

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      First Edition Sep 2007 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393330779 ISBN10 039333077X
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      Sep 2007 Random House ISBN13 9780224075886 ISBN10 0224075888
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      Aug 2008 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099483595 ISBN10 0099483599
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      Sep 2007 Random House ISBN13 9780224081269 ISBN10 0224081268
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      Nov 2008 Vintage ISBN13 9781407018102 ISBN10 1407018108
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      Dec 2011 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN13 9780393343663 ISBN10 0393343669
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      Dec 2011 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN10 B006GH9MFA
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