TRAINSPOTTING [Signed]

Welsh, Irvine

ISBN 10: 0393314804 / ISBN 13: 9780393314809

Published by W.W. Norton, New York, New York, 1996

About this Item

Octavo, 343 pages. In Very Good condition with Near Fine condition dust jacket. Spine is black with scratched white and neon green lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$23.95" on front flap. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities and a small tear to paper binding on front tail edge. Contains a photo of Irvine Welsh at a signing. Signed flat by Irvine Welsh on title page. JW Consignment. Shelved in Case 5. Irvine Welsh's nonlinear, 1993 debut TRAINSPOTTING skyrocketed the Scottish writer into the literary zeitgeist. Chronicling the adventures, mishaps, and hallucinations of a group of heroin users in Edinburgh, Scotland, TRAINSPOTTING encapsulates the punk rawness of the 1990s, juxtaposing the horrors of drug addiction with the irony of community. The novel was longlisted for the Booker prize in its year of publication (it was deemed too offensive for the shortlist by judges) and went on to be adapted as a cult classic film by Danny Boyle starring Ewan MacGregor in 1996. The British Film Institute ranked Boyle's adaptation 10th in its definitive list of the 100 best British movies of all time. 1391987. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1391987

Bibliographic Details

Title: TRAINSPOTTING [Signed]

Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York, New York

Publication Date: 1996

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First American Edition, First Printing.

About this title

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.

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