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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Irvine Welsh |
| Fiction Genre: |
Family & Relationships |
| Awards: |
1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award |
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Professional Reviews
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Gibson, William, SF Eye: "Welsh dropped me into an utterly foreign, perfectly seamless universe, one compounded of 'housing schemes,' culturally endemic alcoholism, lethally fanatical football supporters, and heroin addiction....This was provincial fiction with its balls out, managing to be globally relevant by insisting on being its own most impenetrably regional self. Where they once had been colonized by the English, these people were now colonized by American videos, international mall-culture, and smack. Not a pretty picture and easily one of the two or three best books I read last year." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Hardcover, 344
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (October 01, 2002)
Measurements: 8.5"(h) x 6"(w) x 1"(d), 1.5 lbs.
ISBN: 9780393057249 |
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling. Ah wis jist sitting thair, focusing oan the telly, tryin no tae notice the cunt. He wis bringing me doon. Ah tried tae keep ma attention oan the Jean-Claude Van Damme video. |
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An authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic portrait of young addicts in Edinburgh. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as are ever likely to be found in fiction. |
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