Irvine Welsh
Nearly twenty years after his bestselling novel Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh returns with the prequel Skagboys (W.W. Norton, $26.95), which shows us how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong. Welsh transports us back to 1980s Edinburgh, to the crew’s first hits of heroin, their first forays into pimping and theft, and their attempts to rid themselves of Edinburgh’s drug culture. “[T]he cumulative force of Skagboys is something close to magnificent.”—Financial Times. Welsh is also the author of Ecstasy, Filth (soon to be a major motion picture starring James McAvoy), Glue, Porno, and Crime, among other works.
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