- Social life and customs, Scotland in fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
In the title piece an acid head and a newborn infant exchange consciousness with sardonically unexpected results, Snuff is on a man who videotapes his own suicide, and in Vat 69 a woman keeps her husband's head alive in a jar.
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Bleak, contemporary, open-ended and relentless.
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Vintage, Ugo Guanda
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Spanish, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781843451204
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