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 Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation - Martin Millar
Description: Genre: Fiction / Millar's first novel receives a welcome re-issue. The story of how Alby, the Brixton speed-dealer and ... more  Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation - Martin Millar ... all-round low-life, attempts to evade characters who are set on rubbing him out evokes amphetamine-induced paranoia without ever approaching a cliché. These days the drugs have changed, but this entertaining fable, which is alternately surreal and grubbily realistic, still delights.Newest Review: ... d croak, my insides are fighting to get out and my skin looks like an old newspaper and my left eye has completely ... more ... closed up and there's blood seeping out of the right one and I haven’t been able to keep down food for four days and I feel sick even when I get better.'" Well, thanks for that, Alby. I think we get the picture. His friend Stacey was so fed up with listening to stuff like this that he suggested Alby went on a fast. Clear out his system, work out those hidden allergies. So Alby tried it. Felt much better, and by introducing one food at a time, discovered that he's not allergic to brown rice, carrots...more |
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Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation - Martin Millar: Don't Mess With The Milk Marketing Board (1511 words)
by frannyfortune - written on 22.06.01 (Very useful, 143 readings)
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"Jesus Christ what a f***ing wreck I am, my face looks a hundred years old, people would scream if I went out on the streets, my hair's all falling out, there's a woman from the Milk Marketing Board trying to kill me. She learns my address, that's it, I'm dead." Ermm…sorry about that. I was going to introduce you properly: I'd like you to meet a friend of mine, well, more of an acquaintance really - his name's Alby Starvation, and I think you might find him…well, 'interesting' to know. But he's butted in and started ranting on as usual; well, that's Alby, that's what he's like. He doesn't ...
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