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Trainspotting Book

Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular careerâ??an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.

    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).

  • 0393314804
  • 9780393314809
  • Irvine Welsh
  • 31 October 1996
  • WW Norton & Co
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • 1st American Ed
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