Novels by Irvine Welsh
Trainspotting, Porno, Filth, the Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Glue
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2010
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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Trainspotting, Porno, Filth, the Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Glue, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Skagboys, Crime. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is written in the form of short chapters narrated in the first person by various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the mid to late 1980s. The novel has since achieved a cult status, added to by the global success of the film based on it, Trainspotting (1996), directed by Danny Boyle. Welsh later wrote a sequel, Porno, in 2002. Skagboys, a novella that will serve as a prequel, is expected for publication in 2010. The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus. The novel's origins in short fiction are still visible though no segment or chapter is wholly independent of the others. Each character narrates differently, in a fashion comparable to stream-of-consciousness or representative of psychological realism. For example, Spud will refer to people internally as "cats" (Begbie is a jungle cat, while he himself is a house cat), and Sick Boy will occasionally entertain an inner-dialogue between himself and Sean Connery. Chapters narrated by Renton are written with Scots dialogue terms spelled phonetically, which conveys the character's accent and use of Scots, while Davie's chapters ("Bad Blood," "Traditional Sunday Breakfast") are narrated in Scottish English with dialogue appea...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=23308
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