Ecstasy - Hardcover
A collection of three novels which examine the absurdity and thrills of modern life: A necrophiliac and a faithful wife get what they deserve; the victim of a birth control drug gets terrible revenge; and love spreads without the help of chemical ecstasy.
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Ecstasy is spiced with horror, passion and necrophilia. These flavors help make the tales more tempting, but it is Irvine Welsh's infectious Scottish humor, balanced wry observation with a cavalier canniness, which keeps the reader turning the pages...unforgettably original! "
Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.
[O]ne of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit, and force, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.
Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive."
Welsh's world is piky, trashy, and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious, and infused with a kind of punkish morality...outrageously funny.
Ecstasy is spiced with horror, passion and necrophilia. These flavors help make the tales more tempting, but it is Irvine Welsh's infectious Scottish humor, balanced wry observation with a cavalier canniness, which keeps the reader turning the pages...unforgettably original!
Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino--exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive.
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Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.
[O]ne of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit, and force, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.
Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive."
Welsh's world is piky, trashy, and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious, and infused with a kind of punkish morality...outrageously funny.
Ecstasy is spiced with horror, passion and necrophilia. These flavors help make the tales more tempting, but it is Irvine Welsh's infectious Scottish humor, balanced wry observation with a cavalier canniness, which keeps the reader turning the pages...unforgettably original!
Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino--exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0224043455
- ISBN 13 9780224043458
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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