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Acid Casuals
Not a book for the faint-hearted." Times (UK)
230 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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About the author
Nicholas Blincoe
29 books20 followersBlincoe was born in Rochdale, Lancashire in 1965. After briefly studying art at Middlesex Polytechnic he attended the University of Warwick where he studied Philosophy, gaining a PhD in 1993. The thesis was entitled Depression and Economics. The thesis explored the relationship between political sciences and economic theories, with particular reference to the philosophy of Jacques Derrida.
Blincoe released a Hip-Hop record on Manchester's Factory Records in 1987 and his subsequent relationship with Factory records and the nightclub The Haçienda informed his early work.
In 1995, Blincoe married the Bethlehem Palestinian film-maker Leila Sansour, director of the documentary Jeremy Hardy vs The Israeli Army (2003).
Blincoe has written for British radio and television, including episodes of the BBC TV series Waking The Dead and Channel 4's Goldplated. As a critic and reviewer he has worked for the Modern Review, under the editorship of Toby Young and Julie Burchill. He was a columnist for the London Daily Telegraph until September 2006, writing the weekly 'Marginalia' column.
He is the author of six novels, Acid Casuals (1995), Jello Salad (1997), Manchester Slingback (1998), The Dope Priest (1999), White Mice (2002), Burning Paris (2004). He was a founding member of the New Puritans literary movement and co-edited (with Matt Thorne) the anthology 'All Hail The New Puritans' (2000) which included contributions from Alex Garland, Toby Litt, Geoff Dyer, Daren King, Simon Lewis, and Scarlett Thomas.
Blincoe won the Crime Writer's Association Silver Dagger for his novel Manchester Slingback in 1998. His early novels were crime thrillers set in or around his native Lancashire and the clubs of Manchester.
Some of his more recent novels reflect his life split between homes in London and Bethlehem. He is also a co-editor of a book on the International Solidarity Movement Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement (2003) with Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa Mcloughlin, Hussein Khalili, Huwaida Arraf and Ghassan Andoni.
Blincoe released a Hip-Hop record on Manchester's Factory Records in 1987 and his subsequent relationship with Factory records and the nightclub The Haçienda informed his early work.
In 1995, Blincoe married the Bethlehem Palestinian film-maker Leila Sansour, director of the documentary Jeremy Hardy vs The Israeli Army (2003).
Blincoe has written for British radio and television, including episodes of the BBC TV series Waking The Dead and Channel 4's Goldplated. As a critic and reviewer he has worked for the Modern Review, under the editorship of Toby Young and Julie Burchill. He was a columnist for the London Daily Telegraph until September 2006, writing the weekly 'Marginalia' column.
He is the author of six novels, Acid Casuals (1995), Jello Salad (1997), Manchester Slingback (1998), The Dope Priest (1999), White Mice (2002), Burning Paris (2004). He was a founding member of the New Puritans literary movement and co-edited (with Matt Thorne) the anthology 'All Hail The New Puritans' (2000) which included contributions from Alex Garland, Toby Litt, Geoff Dyer, Daren King, Simon Lewis, and Scarlett Thomas.
Blincoe won the Crime Writer's Association Silver Dagger for his novel Manchester Slingback in 1998. His early novels were crime thrillers set in or around his native Lancashire and the clubs of Manchester.
Some of his more recent novels reflect his life split between homes in London and Bethlehem. He is also a co-editor of a book on the International Solidarity Movement Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement (2003) with Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa Mcloughlin, Hussein Khalili, Huwaida Arraf and Ghassan Andoni.
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December 22, 2018
For me, a happy trip down memory lane. Clubland (London not Manchester) was pretty much my world in the early nineties. This is a dramatized, rather than fictionalised, account of that, now disappeared, world.
September 30, 2019
Very disappointing
When I read the reviews of Acid Casuals, I thought they were a little harsh. Having written several novels myself, I have an idea about the effort involved. The version of Acid Casuals I downloaded was so obviously self published, and badly, I began to sympathize with the critics. No formatting, no editing, totally off putting, in truth. If the author was trying to create the idea of an acid trip, he failed, because the writing let him down. The total confusion of the prose would have been more convincing if the editorial aspects had been right. Maybe it’s a Van Gogh thing I’m missing, but I doubt it.
When I read the reviews of Acid Casuals, I thought they were a little harsh. Having written several novels myself, I have an idea about the effort involved. The version of Acid Casuals I downloaded was so obviously self published, and badly, I began to sympathize with the critics. No formatting, no editing, totally off putting, in truth. If the author was trying to create the idea of an acid trip, he failed, because the writing let him down. The total confusion of the prose would have been more convincing if the editorial aspects had been right. Maybe it’s a Van Gogh thing I’m missing, but I doubt it.
August 22, 2018
as an early work off his it is worth reading it is much more nuanced than the Manchester slingback novel
July 26, 2023
Okay objectively this should be three stars, but as a transsexual who's lived in Manchester it brings me too much joy to have on my shelf for me to rate it lower than 4
April 9, 2013
Not much to say about this book.
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