Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh, First Edition (51 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 1st American Edition/1st Printing softcover. SIGNED by author on a bookplate decal on title page (signature only)on title page. Also includes laid-in the original review from London Sunday Times. Signed by Author.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Trade Paperback. Three tales of love and it ups and downs - "Lorraine Goes to Livingston," "Fortune's Always Hiding," and "The Undefeated." Wear at edges, reading creases, rubbed. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". TRADE PAPERBACK.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition.

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 0393315819 First edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. NOT Book Club. Securely wrapped and shipped in a box. Full # line starting with a 1. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Condition: Gut. Deutsche Erstausgabe. 349 (3) Seiten. 19 cm. Umschlaggestaltung: Manfred Schulz. Guter Zustand. »In einer Zeile von Welsh steckt mehr Leben als in einem ganzen Kilo seiner Zeitgenossen.«, Glasgow Herald. Nur selten sind sich literarische Kritik und das Lesepublikum so einig wie in ihrer Begeisterung über den Dichterfürsten der Drogengeneration (The Face). Wie kaum ein anderer trifft Irvine Welsh das heutige Lebensgefühl. Die Welt in Ecstasy ist die Welt der 90er: Fern vom alltäglichen Kleinkrieg verwandeln sich die Helden am Wochenende in Techno-Clubs für ein paar Stunden zu Partylöwen. Heather zum Beispiel, seit fünf Jahren mit dem Spießer Hugh verheiratet, geht heimlich auf die Piste. Ein paar Pillen, eine durchtanzte Nacht, ein spontaner Entschluß: Sie verläßt ihren Mann und genießt ihr Leben in vollen Zügen. In einem Club trifft sie Lloyd, einen abgefahrenen Typen, in den sie sich hoffnungslos verliebt. Glaubt sie jedenfalls, denn ihr Herz flattert, der Puls rast. Das neue Buch des Kultautors von "Trainspotting"Drei wilde, radikale Geschichten über die Liebe oder das, was man dafür hält. Ecstasy - der Spitzenreiter der englischen Bestsellerlisten führt den Leser an Orte, wo das Herz flattert und der Puls rast. . - Irvine Welsh (* 27. September 1958 in Leith, Edinburgh, Schottland) ist ein britischer Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde Welsh bereits mit seinem ersten Roman Trainspotting, der die von Drogen, Arbeitslosigkeit und Kriminalität geprägten Erlebnisse einer Gruppe junger Schotten in Edinburgh beschreibt. Insbesondere die detaillierte und von verschiedenen Seiten als glorifizierend kritisierte Beschreibung des Heroinkonsums provozierte und machte das Buch und später seine Verfilmung durch den Regisseur Danny Boyle, in der Welsh in einer Nebenrolle als Drogendealer zu sehen ist, zu großen Erfolgen. Der Roman hat inzwischen Kultstatus. Leben: Welsh wurde 1958 als Sohn eines Hafenarbeiters in Edinburgh geboren. Er verließ mit 16 die Schule, versuchte sich anschließend als Fernsehtechniker und in ähnlichen Jobs. In den späten 1970er Jahren tauchte er in der Punkszene Londons als Gitarrist und Sänger auf. Nach mehreren kürzeren Gefängnisaufenthalten wegen kleinerer Delikte versuchte Welsh sich eine Zeit lang als Immobilienmakler, bis er schließlich Ende der 1980er Jahre nach Edinburgh zurückkehrte, wo er ein Management-Studium an der Heriot-Watt University absolvierte. Nach dem großen Erfolg von Trainspotting Mitte der 1990er Jahre konzentrierte er sich auf das Schreiben. Er war von 1984 bis 2003 verheiratet, tritt immer wieder als House Music DJ auf und lebt in Dublin. Themen: Welshs zentrale Themen sind soziale Chancenlosigkeit, Drogenabhängigkeit, Fußball, Hooligans, verdrängte Homosexualität, Aufstieg und Fall des sozialen Wohnungsbaus sowie Fragen nach einer schottischen Identität von den 1960ern bis heute. Stil: Irvine Welsh schreibt häufig im schottischen Dialekt, transkribiert Dialekte dafür phonetisch und ignoriert traditionelle orthografische Methoden. Die deutschen Übersetzungen geben diese stilistische Komponente seiner Arbeit allerdings nicht wieder. Welsh arbeitet in seinen Romanen und Erzählungen gerne mit dem gleichen Arsenal an Charakteren so tauchen etwa die Hauptfiguren aus Trainspotting mit kurzen Gastauftritten in Acid House, Ecstasy und Marabou Stork Nightmares, später auch mit größeren Auftritten in Klebstoff erneut auf, während Charaktere aus Klebstoff dann wieder in Porno und Dead Mens Trousers erscheinen, oder etwa die Hauptfigur in Crime, der Cop Lennox, bereits zehn Jahre vorher in Drecksau aufgetaucht war. . . . Aus: wikipedia-Irvine_Welsh. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 328.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Condition: (see pics.) The book is in nearly new condition. Synopsis: With three wickedly funny and harrowing tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, virtually re-invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance. In Lorraine goes to Livingston, a best-selling author of Regency romances, paralysed and bedridden, plans her revenge on a gambling, whoring husband with the aid of her nurse, Lorraine. In Fortune's Always Hiding, flawed beauty Samantha Worthington enlists a smitten young soccer thug to find the man who marketed the drug that crippled her from birth - in order to give him a taste of his own disastrous medicine. In the upbeat final tale, The Undefeated, we experience the transfiguring passion of the miserably married young yuppie Heather and the raver Lloyd from Leith - a grand affair played out to a house music beat.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Condition: (see pics.) The book has been previously carefully read and is in very good condition. Synopsis: With three wickedly funny and harrowing tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, virtually re-invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance. In Lorraine goes to Livingston, a best-selling author of Regency romances, paralysed and bedridden, plans her revenge on a gambling, whoring husband with the aid of her nurse, Lorraine. In Fortune's Always Hiding, flawed beauty Samantha Worthington enlists a smitten young soccer thug to find the man who marketed the drug that crippled her from birth - in order to give him a taste of his own disastrous medicine. In the upbeat final tale, The Undefeated, we experience the transfiguring passion of the miserably married young yuppie Heather and the raver Lloyd from Leith - a grand affair played out to a house music beat.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, paperback issue. Front wrap lightly smoked at the edges, near fine.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, simultaneous paperback issue. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. The first American edition. Three novellas -- "tales of chemical romance." Only published in wrappers. Fine. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

First edition. 276 pp. Pages lightly toned (cheap paper) else fine in fine dust jacket.

Soft Cover. First Edition. 1st US edition. 1st printing. Paperback original. NF in wraps. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Uncorrected Proof.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine condition first edition/first printing hardback signed by author on title page. Contains full numberline. Binding firm. While appears to be unread there is a slip separation in the textblock where a seller's bookmarl had been tucked in. Some toning textblock. Dust jacket near fine and in protective archival sleeve. signed by author or artist.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition / First printing. Signed by the author on the title page. Yellow and purple illustrated wrappers. 276 pages. Very fine. A paperbound original. Signed by Author(s).

8vo. pp 273. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition/First Printing.Softcover. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Simultaneous paperback. About fine with slight soiling on the front wrapper. Signed by the author.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Text-block tanned, the book has a lean, reading creases to the spine. A trifle beaten-up but Good in wrappers and SIGNED by the author at the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. First Edition, first impression, with printing sequence line '10987654321'. SIGNED AND DATED '6/6/96' by the author on the title page. Publisher's Paperback Original with illustrated card covers, now in archival protective Lyfjacket. Octavo. pp. 280. A book in Fine condition with a hint of page toning.

first edition proof copy 276pp VERY GOOD+ (in glossy wrappers,sl.creasing to covers,sl.cocked).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth, gilt, lightly bumped head. Pictorial dust jacket, also lightly bumped head. First edition, signed on the title page. Interior crisp and clean. Welsh made his name with the film adaptation of Trainspotting. This is three more tales revolving around drugs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

First edition, first printing of the hardback edition (most of the edition was printed as paperbacks). Fine in fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked else near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Jonathan Cape, London 1996 / Hardback. UK First Edition and First Impression. Fine in Fine Dustjacket. Signed by the author directly to the title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Lightly-tanned block but a Fine copy in wrappers. SIGNED (for the seller in person) by the author at the title page. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. As new, in striking colour pictorial (purple head with open mouth taking an ecstasy tablet) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text-block uniformly tanned (cheap paper-stock) but a Fine copy in Fine dustjacket otherwise. SIGNED (for the seller in person) by the author at the title page. Signed by Author(s).