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Trainspotting - by Irvine Welsh (Paperback)

Trainspotting - by  Irvine Welsh (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><em>Trainspotting</em> is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career--an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s <em>Last Exit to Brooklyn</em> 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. <em>Trainspotting</em> was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (<em>Shallow Grave</em>).<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Blisteringly funny.... Don't abandon everything for the movie. It's worth making the effort with <em>Trainspotting</em> 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"<br><br>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"<br><br>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"<br><br>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"<br><br>The language in <em>Trainspotting</em> 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"<br><br>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<br>

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