In this book, Murray Smith unpicks the processes that led to the enormous success of Trainspotting. He isolates the various factors that make Trainspotting such a vivid document of its time.
"The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."—Rebel, Inc.
Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.
The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film Choose us.
Gritty, moving, and exhilarating, Skagboys paints their dizzying downward spiral with scabrous humor and raw language.
Ingen text från tiden liknar Trainspotting. I översättning av Einar Heckscher. IRVINE WELSH föddes 1958 i Edinburgh, Skottland. Trainspotting som är hans debutroman publicerades ursprungligen 1993.
"With God's help I'll conquer this terrible affliction." Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting Includes excepts from the film reviews and provides a background to Transpotting. ...
One of these four will not survive . . . Which one is wearing Dead Men's Trousers? Fast and furious, scabrously funny, and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.
Die volle Ladung Leben - ein Klassiker der Underground-Literatur Mietskasernen, Arbeitslosigkeit, miese Pubs, viel Alkohol und jede Menge Drogen: das ist der Alltag in Leith, einem heruntergekommenen Vorort von Edinburgh.
Illustrated with Michael Harvey's own photographs and a selection of maps, Forget the Anorak appeals to anyone who experienced the golden days of trainspotting, as well as to anyone interested in the social history of Britain after the ...
... directed with terrific energy and style, a witty subversion of the usual documentary approach to such subjects, and excellently acted by its ensemble cast.' Gritten, David (ed) (2008). Halliwell's Film Video & DVD Guide.