Download or read book Ecstasy written by Irvine Welsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.

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