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Irvine Welsh
Author profile
born
in Edinburgh, The United Kingdom
September 27, 1958
gender
male
website
genre
influences
Celine. Iain Banks. Hubert Selby Jr. Alasdair Gray
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Trainspotting
— published 1993 — 63 editions |
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Filth
— published 1998 — 29 editions |
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Porno
— published 2000 — 29 editions |
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The Acid House
— published 1994 — 24 editions |
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Marabou Stork Nightmares
— published 1995 — 16 editions |
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Glue
— published 2001 — 20 editions |
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Ecstasy
— published 1996 — 27 editions |
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The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
— published 2006 — 22 editions |
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Crime
— published 2008 — 17 editions |
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If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
— published 2007 — 15 editions |
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Book Slam
(1 book)
by Irvine Welsh, William Boyd, Hari Kunzru, Jon Ronson, Joe Dunthorne, Bernardine Evaristo, Jon McGregor, Richard Milward , more…
by Irvine Welsh, William Boyd, Hari Kunzru, Jon Ronson, Joe Dunthorne, Bernardine Evaristo, Jon McGregor, Richard Milward , more…
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September 2012,
Irvine Welsh
"His Favorite Books About Addiction: The Trainspotting author revives his gang of Edinburgh heroin junkies in a new book, Skagboys, and offers five recs about addicts." ...More
"His Favorite Books About Addiction: The Trainspotting author revives his gang of Edinburgh heroin junkies in a new book, Skagboys, and offers five recs about addicts." ...More
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“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
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