With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance .Welsh's world is piky, trashy, and brutal. It is also brilliant, hilarious, and infused with a kind of punkish morality...outrageously funny.Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.Reading Irvine Welsh is like watching Tarantinoexciting, urgent, thrilling, repulsive.[O]ne of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit, and force, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.From the celebrated author of the bestselling cult classic