by Irvine Welsh
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This collection of loosely gathered tales centres on the bleak lives of a group of twentysomething friends (or rather associates; 'Nae friends in this game.') in Edinburgh. Addiction, violence, sex and the baser bodily functions are the main concerns of the slacker characters and these topics are treated with a direct language that may not be to everyone's taste. Innovative in its prose-style, ground-breaking in its subject matter, startling and gripping in its voice - I should say voices for Welsh is wondrously profligate with the characters he invents, the stories they tell, the many different yarns, opinions, jokes and rants that pour out of the mouths of his pithily (and sometimes painfully) observed Edinburgh folk. That's one way the novel triumphs over the (admittedly very enjoyable) film version: it's so much richer, more complex, truer to life as it's lived by millions of people today, in Scotland and beyond. If the structure of Trainspotting is a little loose and baggy, well, the same could be said of the Canterbury Tales and Oliver Twist. A startling first novel that will leave your head buzzing. (Kirkus UK)
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`A complex, episodic read'
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This collection of loosely gathered tales centres on the bleak lives of a group of twentysomething friends (or rather associates; 'Nae friends in this game.') in Edinburgh. Addiction, violence, sex and the baser bodily functions are the main concerns of the slacker characters and these topics are treated with a direct language that may not be to everyone's taste. Innovative in its prose-style, ground-breaking in its subject matter, startling and gripping in its voice - I should say voices for Welsh is wondrously profligate with the characters he invents, the stories they tell, the many different yarns, opinions, jokes and rants that pour out of the mouths of his pithily (and sometimes painfully) observed Edinburgh folk. That's one way the novel triumphs over the (admittedly very enjoyable) film version: it's so much richer, more complex, truer to life as it's lived by millions of people today, in Scotland and beyond. If the structure of Trainspotting is a little loose and baggy, well, the same could be said of the Canterbury Tales and Oliver Twist. A startling first novel that will leave your head buzzing. (Kirkus UK)
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`A complex, episodic read'
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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