- Fiction, Drug addicts, Young men, Scotland, fiction
Scottish writer Irvine Welsh's first novel, Trainspotting, is a collection of short-stories revolving around a group of friends, their drug use, and struggles in the city of Edinburgh.
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Contemporary, bleak, character-led and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Singel Pockets., VINTAGE (RAND)
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- Russian, English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780099503880
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First sentence
“The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling.”
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