Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.
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Summary
Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.
Description
It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave).
About the Author
Irvine Welsh is the author of "Trainspotting", "Filth" (being made into a movie starring James McAvoy), " Acid House", "Glue", "Porno", and "Crime", writes screenplays, and produces movies. He lives in Chicago, Miami, and London.
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Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's trainspotting-the novel and the film that have become the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the hilarious, appalling, riveting, bestselling, and altogether masterful first novel that launched the spectacular career of Irvine Welsh. It is an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating group portrait of blasted lives in Edinburgh-as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and nutters as readers will ever encounter.
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