TrainspottingTrainspotting 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. |
Contents
The Skag Boys JeanClaude Van Damme and Mother | 3 |
Scotland Takes Drugs In Psychic Defence The Glass | 95 |
Inter Shitty Na Na and Other Nazis The First Shag | 153 |
Courting Disaster Junk Dilemmas No 66 Deid Dugs | 222 |
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