num_pages: 340
description: "The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."― Rebel, Inc. Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting ―the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career―an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle ( A Shallow Grave ).
language: English
title: Trainspotting
titlecomplete: Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
characters: Mark Renton, Simon Williamson
genres: 20th Century, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Literature, Scotland, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 164473
places: London, England, Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
series: Mark Renton
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company