Trainspotting (novel)
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| 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, first published in 1993. It taks the form o a collection o short stories, written in Scots, Scots Inglis or Breetish Inglis, revolvin aboot various residents o Leith, Edinburgh wha either uise heroin, are 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 since achieved a cult status, added tae bi the global success o the film based on it, Trainspotting (1996), directed bi Danny Boyle.[3] Welsh wrote a sequel, Porno, in 2002. Skagboys, a novel that serves as a prequel, wis published in April 2012.[4]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Irvine Welsh plans Trainspotting prequel Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine The Sunday Times. 16-03-2008. Retrieved on 07-10-2010
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A fourth book in the series, Dead Men’s Trousers, was released in March 2018.Bookworm - The Scotsman - Prequelspotting