Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance Paperback - 1996
by Irvine Welsh
A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.
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With three delightful tales of love and its up and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance. In "Lorraine Goes to Livingston", a best-selling author of Regency romances, paralyzed 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.
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- Title Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance
- Author Irvine Welsh
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 290
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York
- Date 1996-08-17
- ISBN 9780393315813 / 0393315819
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.23 x 5.44 x 0.72 in (20.90 x 13.82 x 1.83 cm)
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects Scotland - Social life and customs, Black humor (Literature)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Publishers Weekly, 08/19/1996, Page 62
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