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Language
  
English, Scots

Media type
  
Print

ISBN
  
0-224-03685-8

Originally published
  
1994

Genre
  
Short story

Adaptations
  
The Acid House (1998)

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Publication date
  
1994

Pages
  
304 pp

OCLC
  
32467731

Author
  
Irvine Welsh

Publisher
  
Jonathan Cape

Country
  
Scotland

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Similar
  
Irvine Welsh books, Fiction books

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The Acid House is a 1994 book by Irvine Welsh, later made into a film of the same name. It is a collection of 22 short stories, with each story (between 3 and 20 pages) featuring a new set of characters and scenarios.

Contents

Stories

  • "The Shooter"
  • "Eurotrash"
  • "Stoke Newington Blues"
  • "Vat '96"
  • "A Soft Touch"
  • "The Last Resort On The Adriatic"
  • "Sexual Disaster Quartet"
  • "Snuff"
  • "A Blockage In The System"
  • "Wayne Foster"
  • "Where the Debris Meets the Sea"
  • "Granny's Old Junk"
  • "The House of John Deaf"
  • "Across the Hall"
  • "Lisa's Mum Meets the Queen Mum"
  • "The Two Philosophers"
  • "Disnae Matter"
  • "The Granton Star Cause"
  • "Snowman Building Parts for Rico the Squirrel"
  • "Sport For All"
  • "The Acid House"
  • "A Smart Cunt (A Novella)"

    • Film adaptation

    The 1998 film, The Acid House, directed by Paul McGuigan, dramatizes 3 of the 22 stories from the book - "The Granton Star Cause", "A Soft Touch", and "The Acid House".

    References

    The Acid House Wikipedia
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