Ecstasy
Ecstasy
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Zusammenfassung
From the celebrated author of the bestselling cult classic Trainspotting, a new work of fiction that triumphantly puts the E back in Eros.
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Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh
With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance . In "Lorraine Goes to Livingston," a bestselling authoress of Regency romances, paralyzed and bedridden, plans her revenge on 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 his 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. As these fools for love pursue it in all the wrong places, Ecstasy is guaranteed to set pulses racing and hearts aflutter.
"Welsh's world is piky, trashy, and brutalIt is also brilliant, hilarious, and infused with a kind of punkish morality...outrageously funny." -- Sunday Express
"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." -- Sunday Times [London]
"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!" -- The Literary Review
"Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino—exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive." -- The Spectator
"[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." -- Times Literary Supplement
"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." -- Sunday Times [London]
"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!" -- The Literary Review
"Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino—exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive." -- The Spectator
"[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." -- Times Literary Supplement
Irvine Welsh is the best-selling author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Skagboys, and, most recently, Dead Men's Trousers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393315813 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393315819 |
| Titel | Ecstasy |
| Autor | Irvine Welsh |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | WW Norton & Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1996-08-17 |
| Seitenanzahl | 290 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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