Ecstasy
Subtitle: three tales of chemical romance
By: Irvine Welsh
Edition: 1st Norton pbk. ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780393315813
Subjects: Ecstasy (Drug); Fiction
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Lorraine goes to Livingston : a rave and regency romance; title: Fortune's always hiding : a corporate drug romance; title: The undefeated : an acid house romance.