Ecstasy - by Irvine Welsh (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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, <em>Ecstasy</em> is guaranteed to set pulses racing and hearts aflutter.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>Ecstasy</em> 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"<br><br>[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"<br><br>Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino--exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive.-- "The Spectator"<br><br>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]"<br><br>Welsh's world is piky, trashy, and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious, and infused with a kind of punkish morality...outrageously funny.-- "Sunday Express"<br>
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