Trainspotting - Softcover

Welsh, Irvine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393314804 ISBN 13: 9780393314809

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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Review

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

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.

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.

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

From the Publisher

The seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction

Edition details

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393314804
• ISBN 13: 9780393314809
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368