The Acid House

Author- Welsh Irvine

Description-

After his spectacular and controversial debut, Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh - the most dangerous new writer in Scotland - follows with an unsettling, shocking and very funny collection of stories. 

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface-depraved, vivious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Using a range of approaches, from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh displays a corrosive wit and a telling accuracy of observation, confronting our perception of our own identities and that of those around us.

ISBN: 9780099435013
ISBN-10: 0099435012 
Audience: General 
For Ages: 18+ years old
Format: Paperback 
Language: English 
Number Of Pages: 289
Published: 6th June 1995
Publisher: Vintage Publishing 

About the Author

Irvine Welsh was born in the great city of Edinburgh, Scotland. He can't quite recall if it was Simpson's or Elsie Inglis maternity pavilions. In fact he remembers little of the birth, though his mother assured him later that it was fairly routine. This selective memory at key points in his life would continue. What he seems quite certain of is that his family moved from their tenement home in Leith, to the prefabs in West Pilton, and then onto Muirhouse's maisonette flats.