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Guests | December 29, 2009

Alex Lemon: IMG Everyone Called Me "Happy"



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    Happy: A Memoir

    Alex Lemon

Acid House

by Irvine Welsh

Acid House Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Following the cult success of his first novel >Trainspotting<, this collection of Irvine Welsh's short stories went on to sell over 10,000 copies in Cape trade paperback. Uncompromising, unsettling, shocking and very funny, they range in style from bitter realism to demented fantasy. Publication coincides with the new novel >The Marabou Stork Nightmares<, again coming from Cape. Vintage.

Review:

“Mind-bendingly good.”

GQ magazine

“The collection as a whole is sick, horrific, occasionally moving and very funny.”

New Statesman

Synopsis:

Bizarre, disturbing and hilarious writing from one of the literary world’s most uncompromising and original stars.

Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the novella, “A Smart Cunt,” the drug-addled young hero spins off on a collision course with his past.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780099435013
Author:
WELSH, IRVINE
Publisher:
Random House
Location:
N
Copyright:
Edition Description:
NEW ED
Publication Date:
19950420
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Pages:
289
Dimensions:
196 x 129 in.

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