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  • Published: 7 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099590910
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.99

Ecstasy

Three Tales of Chemical Romance




Now a major motion picture.

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and necrophiliac, thwart those plans? Dave Thornton, soccer thug, has lost his heart to flawed beauty Samantha Worthington. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him. Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die in the grim backstreets of Edinburgh, or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns?

  • Published: 7 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780099590910
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.99

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Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is the author of eleven previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.

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Praise for Ecstasy

A pure writer, producing staggering feats of storytelling... The skill of a master

Independent

Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing to have happened to British writing for decades

Sunday Times

Urgent, violent, bleakly funny prose

Nick Hornby, Times literary Supplement

Welsh's world is spiky, trashy and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious and infused with a kind of punkish morality

Sunday Express

The poet laureate of the chemical generation

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