Trainspotting
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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- Full title :Trainspotting / Irvine Welsh.
Summary
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.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1996.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Norton
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1996.
The Physical Object
- Description:348 p. ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0393057240, 9780393057249
- oclc:ocn970599969
- LC Classification:PR6073.E47
- Dewey Decimal:823
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