Name: Trainspotting
ISBN: 9780393314809

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Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

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Nominee:Firecracker Alternative Book Award -Fiction (1997)

Trainspotting is the novel that launched the sensational career of Irvine Welsh - an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating group portrait of blasted lives in Edinburgh that has the linguistic energy of A Clockwork Orange and the literary impact of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Begbie are as unforgettable a clutch of rude boys, junkies, and nutters as readers will ever encounter.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Jun 17th, 1996
Pages: 368
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.22in - 5.48in - 0.92in - 0.66lb
EAN: 9780393314809
Categories: • Urban & Street Lit

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About the Author

Welsh, Irvine: - Irvine Welsh is the best-selling author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Skagboys, and, most recently, Dead Men's Trousers.

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What people are saying

Jack Said What

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Record Label, headed up by a certain Mr Irvine Welsh

Thanks to @argusbha for the piece on Jack Said What, interviewing both big boss @IrvineWelsh and forthcoming artist @LisaMoorish about the label. Read the feature here: https://t.co/uvRFUDVCRs https://t.co/WKOX78L7s5

Editor-in-Chief @UnHerd, Fmr Editor-in-Chief @YouGov, founder @PoliticsHome. freddie@unherd.com

Author of Trainspotting Irvine Welsh has written exclusively for @UnHerd about the stigmatisation and abandonment of white working class men. Righteous fury on every line - an amazing thing to read. Don’t miss! https://t.co/uT3vSh7fUc

Musica, sottoculture, film di culto. Mod, skinhead, punk, post-punk. Curiamo il blog #CrombieMedia e il magazine #GaragelandRivista. Instagram: https://t.co/nMJRcjhry5

Irvine Welsh: I doubt that Trainspotting would be published in today’s climate https://t.co/N7YRmi6M7C

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Praise for this book

Irvine Welsh may become one of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit, and force, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.-- "Times Literary Supplement"

Blisteringly funny.... Don't abandon everything for the movie. It's worth making the effort with Trainspotting not merely because relatively few writers have rummaged through this particular enclave of British youth culture, but because even fewer have dug there so deeply.-- "New York Times Book Review"

It is funny, unflinchingly abrasive, authentic, and inventive, unerringly on--and off--the pulse. It is a true cult, the kind of novel you press on perfect strangers. It validates a world fiction hasn't recognized before.-- "Times Out"

Irvine Welsh writes with skill, wit, and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.--Nick Hornby "Sunday Times"

Irvine Welsh is the real thing--a marvelous admixture of nihilism and heartbreak, pinpoint realism (especially in dialect and tone) and almost archetypal universality.--David Foster Wallace

The language in Trainspotting is... exhilarating once you get the hang of it, and finally poetic in its complications.... Literary in the best sense, using language at every level to tell a story.--Jane Mendelsohn "New Republic"

What people are saying

Jack Said What

@Jack_said_what

1 year

Record Label, headed up by a certain Mr Irvine Welsh

Editor-in-Chief @UnHerd, Fmr Editor-in-Chief @YouGov, founder @PoliticsHome. freddie@unherd.com

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