Trainspotting (novel)
| Author | Irvine Welsh |
|---|---|
| Kintra | Scotland |
| Leid | English, Urban Scots |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
| Publication date | 1993  |
| Media teep | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 344 pp |
| ISBN | 0-7493-9606-7 |
| OCLC | 34832527 |
| ISBN-13 | 823/.914 20 |
| Follaed bi | Porno (in universe) / marabou stork nightmares (publication date) |
Trainspotting is the first novel bi Scottish writer Irvine Welsh that wis furst setten furth in 1993. It taks the form o a collection o short stories, written in Scots, Scots Inglis or Breetish Inglis, revolvin aboot sindry residents o Leith, Edinburgh wha aither uise heroin, is friends o the core group o heroin uisers, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the late 1980s[1] an haes been cawed "the voice o punk, grown up, grown wiser an grown eloquent".[2]
The novel haes sin achieved a cult status, eikit til bi the global success o the film based on it, Trainspotting (1996), directed bi Danny Boyle.[3] Welsh wrate a sequel, Porno, in 2002. Skagboys, a novel that serves as a prequel, wis published in Aprile 2012.[4] A fowert buik in the series, Dead Men’s Trousers, wis lowsed in Mairch 2018.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Irvine Welsh plans Trainspotting prequel". The Sunday Times via internet archive. 16 Mairch 2008. Archived frae the original on 9 Mey 2008. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ↑ Sunday Times.
- ↑ Contemporary Scottish Fictions--Film, Television, and the Novel: Film, Television and the Novel, by Duncan J. Petrie. Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2004.ISBN 0748617892. Page 101-102.
- ↑ "Bookworm-Prequelspotting". The Scotsman via internet archive. 2 August 2008. Archived frae the original on 23 Januar 2009. Retrieved 14 September 2025.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)