Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
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Book Summary Information
Author: Irvine WelshEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-05
ISBN: 0393314804
Number of pages: 348
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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- ISBN13: 9780393314809
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Trainspotting
Book Review: One of the greatest books ever written
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book after I had seen the movie, and discovered how absolutely great it is. This is not at all overrated, and a complete masterpiece. Although, it's not the same as the film. Not the same style, not the same narrative, and it's a lot more gritty (if you can imagine that) or disgusting-in a good way. This is not for the faint of heart, but if you go in reading this expecting anything then you will be amazed.
Summary of Trainspotting
For the first time in hardcover with the original jacket art: "The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."-Rebel, Inc.Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career-an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn 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. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (A Shallow Grave).
Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy.
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