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The acid house / Irvine Welsh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Norton, 1995.Description: 289 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0393312801
  • 9780393312805
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Contents:
The shooter -- Eurotrash -- Stoke Newington blues -- Vat '96 -- A soft touch -- The last resort on the Adriatic -- Sexual disaster quartet -- Snuff -- A blockage in the system -- Wayne Foster -- Where the debris meets the sea -- Granny's old junk -- The house of John Deaf -- Across the hall -- Lisa's mum meets the Queen mum -- The two philosophers -- Disnae matter -- The Granton star cause -- Snowman building parts for Rico the squirrel -- Sport for all -- The acid house.
Summary: In the title piece an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousness with sardonically unexpected results, Snuff is on a man who videotapes his own suicide, and in Vat 69 a woman keeps her husband's head alive in a jar.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Welsh Irv Available 33111006548131
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

He is called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy, manipulative, and vicious characters. He specializes particularly in cosmic reversals--God turn a hapless footballer into a fly; an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousnesses with sardonically unexpected results--always displaying a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and detail. Irvine Welsh is one hilariously dangerous writer who always creates a sensation.

The shooter -- Eurotrash -- Stoke Newington blues -- Vat '96 -- A soft touch -- The last resort on the Adriatic -- Sexual disaster quartet -- Snuff -- A blockage in the system -- Wayne Foster -- Where the debris meets the sea -- Granny's old junk -- The house of John Deaf -- Across the hall -- Lisa's mum meets the Queen mum -- The two philosophers -- Disnae matter -- The Granton star cause -- Snowman building parts for Rico the squirrel -- Sport for all -- The acid house.

In the title piece an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousness with sardonically unexpected results, Snuff is on a man who videotapes his own suicide, and in Vat 69 a woman keeps her husband's head alive in a jar.

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