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Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

By Welsh, Irvine
Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance
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.

Details

Authors: Welsh, Irvine
Copyright: 1996
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780393343175
ISBN10: 0393343170
Page Count: 288
Dimensions: 5.55x0.73x8.27
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Jacket Notes: 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.

Description

Starring Adam Sinclair, of British television and Van Wilder 2, Kristin Kreuk of Smallville, Billy Boyd of Lord of the Rings, and Irvine Welsh in a cameo, Ecstasy is cult-classic ready. Director Rob Heydon draws his plot from Welsh s novella The Undefeated: An Acid House Romance and uses his expertise in music videos and documentaries to re-create the club scene, including a pulsing soundtrack from Coldplay, Primal Scream, and Tiesto. Ecstasy has opened in Canada, Germany, and the UK."
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