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Published: 2nd August 2004
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Trainspotting
By (Author) Irvine Welsh
Vintage Publishing
Vintage
2nd August 2004
11th July 1994
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
448
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 27mm
309g
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
Abhorrently dark and raw to the core, Trainspotting is an insight into one of lifes many ugly personalities addiction and the accompanying domino effect of grim inevitabilities Irvine Welshs novel will always be a cult classic. -- Tori Chalmers * Culture Trip *
Welshs skill as a storyteller is undeniable, bringing both wit and compassion to a grim subject matter. If you liked Danny Boyles film adaptation, youll love the original. -- Maddy Searle * i *
The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent * Sunday Times *
The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the bible * Rebel Inc *
Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades * Sunday Times *
Irvine Welsh is the author of ten previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.