Ecstasy

by Irvine Welsh

Overview

Prepare for another cult-movie/cult-book wave as Ecstasy, the movie, brings new fans to Irvine Welsh’s book of “chemical romances.”

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393343175
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/16/2012
Series:	Movie Tie-In Editions Series
Edition description:	Movie Tie-in Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Irvine Welsh is the best-selling author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Skagboys, and, most recently, Dead Men's Trousers.

Editorial Reviews

"Effortlessly readable prose, which uniquely captures the mood of contemporary England."

Spike Magazine - Chris Mitchell

"It is Irvine Welsh’s infectious Scottish humor, balancing wry observation with a cavalier canniness, which keeps the reader turning the pages . . . unforgettably original."

The Literary Review

"Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantino—exciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive."

The Spectator

"[O]ne of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit, and force, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear."

Times Literary Supplement

"Welsh's world is piky, trashy, and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious, and infused with a kind of punkish morality...outrageously funny."

Sunday Express

"Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades."

Sunday Times [London]

Welsh’s world is spiky, trashy and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious and infused with a kind of punkish morality.”
—Sunday Express

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