Trainspotting

irvine welsh

"The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."― Rebel, Inc. Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting ―the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. 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 ( A Shallow Grave ).

Genres fictioncontemporaryclassicsscotlandnovelscrimeliteraturebritish literaturethriller20th century

340 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1993

Series

Mark Renton

Places

london england, edinburgh scotland, scotland,

This edition

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Published: October 1, 2002 by W. W. Norton \u0026 Company
ISBN: 9780393057249
ASIN: 0393057240
Language: English

Characters More characters

Mark Renton

The main character and antihero of Trainspotting, Renton is the voice of (relative) sanity among his group of friends, many of whom he cannot stand. He narrates his daily life – from supporting his heroin addiction with dole money and petty theft to inter...
Simon Williamson

A slick, amoral con artist, and Rentons oldest friend. He is always on the lookout for the "perfect scam", despite being perfectly inept at serious crime. He picks up women with ease and flaunts this quality in front of his friends. By the end of th...