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PUBLISHER: Vintage Publishing

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781843451204

RRP: £8.34

PUBLICATION DATE:
December 31, 2002

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The Acid House

Irvine Welsh

The characters in this extraordinary book are often – on the surface – depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the novella, “A Smart Cunt”, the drug-addled young hero spins off on a collision course with his past. “The Acid House” is a bizarre, disturbing and hilarious collection from one of the most uncompromising and original writers around.

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is the author of several works of fiction, most recently Crime. He lives in Dublin.

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