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The Acid House
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Irvine Welsh
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Dark Humor,
- Speculative Literary Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Stories where cosmic reversals upend reality in wild ways
- Characters who are depraved yet unexpectedly human
- Biting wit mixed with surreal, unpredictable storytelling
Irvine Welsh's scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories is the basis for the 1998 cult movie directed by Paul McGuigan.
Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy, manipulative, and vicious characters. He specializes particularly in cosmic reversals—God turns a hapless footballer into a fly; an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousnesses with sardonically unexpected results—always displaying a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of language and detail.
Irvine Welsh is one hilariously dangerous writer who always creates a sensation.
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