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Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh
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''The best book ever written by man or woman . . . Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible" —Rebel Inc THE BESTSELLING NOVEL THAT INSPIRED DANNY BOYLE’S CULT FILM Described by The Sunday Times as "the voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent," Trainspotting follows the lives of a group of Scottish junkies. Its bleak depiction of drug addiction is vivid and brutal, and has lost none of its power to shock. Choose the book that outraged the critics. Choose the literary phenomenon that defined a generation. Choose Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh.
Genres: FictionContemporaryClassicsScotlandNovelsCrimeLiteratureBritish LiteratureThriller20th Century
431 Pages

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