ACID PLAID New Scottish Writing

Ritchie, Harry (Ed)

ISBN 10: 1559703989 / ISBN 13: 9781559703987

Published by Arcade, NY, 1996

About this Item

245 pp., Blue-Grn Illus Paperback, VG, 1st ed.

Seller Inventory # 039060

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ACID PLAID New Scottish Writing
• Publisher: Arcade, NY
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1559703989
• ISBN 13: 9781559703987
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • literature

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Synopsis

Offers a collection of work from various Scottish writers who have revolutionized late-twentieth-century literature, such as Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, Janice Galloway, William Boyd, and others. Original.

From the Back Cover

"Ritchie's hugely enjoyable anthology is both a reflection of, and a significant contribution to, the current resurgence in Scottish writing." --Times Literary Supplement Ever since the huge success of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting made Edinburgh the hottest literary spot on the map, there has been a palpable sense that the so-called Scottish beats gave something new, something young and raw and energetic and exciting, to inject in to literary culture. Kirkus declared the Scottish beats to be "strong contenders for world-class literary status." The New York Times Magazine heralded the arrival of "a new, beer-soaked, drug-filled, profanity-laced, violently funny literature." Here, for the first time, is an overview of this much-heralded "new school of grit-lit coming out of Scotland" --Los Angeles Times. Acid Plaid features original and top-quality work from "and impressive array or Scottish writers" (British Esquire), some of them prominent and some still emerging, including a host of explosively talented young writers whose work has never hit American shores. Until now.