Trainspotting [Paperback]

It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'sThe language inBlisteringly funny.... Don't abandon everything for the movie. It's worth making the effort withIt is funny, unflinchingly abrasive, authentic, and inventive, unerringly onand offthe pulse. It is a true cult, the kind of novel you press on perfect strangers. It validates a world fiction hasn't recognized before.Irvine Welsh writes with skill, wit, and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.Irvine Welsh may become one 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.Irvine Welsh is the real thinga marvelous admixture of nihilism and heartbreak, pinpoint realism (especially in dialect and tone) and almost archetypal universality.