The Acid House (Record no. 59067)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 59067 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260219124020.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780393312805 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | AIS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.914 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Irvine Welsh |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Acid House |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Vintage |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1995 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories introduces to these shores a young writer already being called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad postmodern Roald Dahl" (Weekend Scotsman). 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 and he is bound to create a sensation. Includes the following stories: "The Shooter" "Eurotrash" "Stoke Newington Blues" "Vat '96" "A Soft Touch" "The Last Resort on the Adriatic" "Sexual Disaster Quartet" "Snuff" "A Blockage in the System" "Wayne Foster" "Where the Debris Meets the Sea" "Granny's Old Junk" "The House of John Deaf" "Across the Hall" "Lisa's Mum Meets the Queen Mum" "The Two Philosophers" "Disnae Matter" "The Granton Star Cause" "Snowman Building Parts for Rico the Squirrel" "Sport for All" "The Acid House" |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Dark |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Fiction |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Short Stories |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="<WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/The Acid House by Welsh Irvine.pdf"><WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/The Acid House by Welsh Irvine.pdf</a> |
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