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      Trainspotting

      by Irvine Welsh
      Published
      Jan 1993
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
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      348
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      Trainspotting Book 2

      About This Book

      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 (Shallow Grave).

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      Feb 1996 Vintage (UK) ISBN 0749336501
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