- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail; 1st edition edition (1 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 185242558X
- ISBN-13: 978-1852425586
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,155,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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There is a special relationship between writers and drugs. From De Quincey to Huxley; Baudelaire to Burroughs, writers have fused stimulants with the creative urge; blurring experimentation with need, and desire with addiction. Recent times have seen a significant upsurge in stimulant based writing. Intoxication features some of the best of this new fiction from both British and American writers like Irvine Welsh, Lynne Tillman, Jeff Noon and Gary Indiana, fictions which explore themes closely related to the preoccupations of the 'chemical generation.? With all the hedonistic highs and paranoid poignancy of a drug itself, Intoxication is a stand out gathering of some of the most innovative and entertaining writers of the 1990s.
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Toni Davidson is a writer, editor and performer. He has previously edited an anthology of Scottish lesbian and gay writing And thus Will I Freely Sing (Polygon). His fiction has appeared in The Crazy Jig, The Mammoth Book of Gay Stories, Queer Words and Rebel Inc. His performance work has been staged at the CCA and Arches theatre in Glasgow.
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This review is from: Intoxication: An anthology of stimulant-based writing (Paperback)
A broad collection of stories from a variety of different authors. Manages to get away from the straight macho image of drug taking by including stories from women and gays. Very funny in parts but not in a laughing out loud way. Doesn't glamorise druggy life as some authors have. Overall, very entertaining.
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