RAVE

Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanent ly pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He exper iences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc jockeying and closes in, gradually , on some kind of redemption...