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The Acid House.
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In the following review of The Acid House, Bush examines Welsh's use of dialect and jargon, finding such language rhythmic and poetic.
A shorter Welsh lexicon to begin: nowt mean “nothin...
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In the following review of The Acid House, Welsh's follow-up to Trainspotting, Clee notes that the second book cannot match the intensity of the first. Still, he finds Welsh's talents fo...
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In the following review of The Acid House, Whiteside praises Welsh's skill at narrative surprise, preferring the surreal short stories to the more realistic novella and comparing Welsh to Willi...
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In the following review, Allison provides a brief, generally favorable assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of The Acid House.
This collection of short stories [The Acid House] is a brilliant im...
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In the following review of The Acid House, DeRossitt compares the richness of Welsh's prose to that of James Joyce.
In the stories that make up this fine collection, The Acid House, Irvine Wels...
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Critical Review by Lyall Bush
