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 Irvine Welsh (born in Leith , Edinburgh on September 27, 1958) is an acclaimed contemporary Scottish novelist . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Trainspotting (1993) 1.2 The Acid House (1994) 1.3 Interviews 2 See Also 3 External links // Sourced Trainspotting...
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Irvine Welsh (born Leith, Edinburgh, 27 September 1958) is an acclaimed contemporary Scottish novelist, most famous for his novel Trainspotting. He has also written plays and screenplays, as well as directing several short...
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 The Independent - London The interview / IRVINE WELSH
06/02/1996: 1,478 words, approx. 5 pages In an upmarket Edinburgh cafe that one of the characters in his second book, The Acid House, professes to hate, Irvine Welsh is discussing Kids. "That whole thing about a teenage guy seducing virgins just did not ring true," he observes sceptically. "At that... summary from source:
Evening Standard - London Coming unstuck with Irvine Welsh
05/08/2001: 732 words, approx. 2 pages GLUE by Irvine Welsh (Cape, 12) REMEMBER exactly when I lost patience with Irvine Welsh. It was a couple of years after Trainspotting had come out and I was standing (there were no seats) at a performance of Filth. We were heading towards... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Scrumptious Pastiche For the Well-Read Cook
12/3/2006: 445 words, approx. 2 pagesI ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago, and so I found I couldn’t force myself to read the whole of Against... summary from source:
The New York Observer Scrumptious Pastiche For the Well-Read Cook
12/3/2006: 444 words, approx. 2 pages I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago, and so I found I couldn’t force myself to read the whole of...
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 Critical Review by Jenny Turner
3,308 words, approx. 11 pages
In the following review, Turner links Trainspotting to the long tradition of substance abuse in Scottish life and literature, arguing that heroin, unlike alcohol, seems not to provide the comfort of false optimism to its users. According to Turner, Welsh's strengths as a writer are his unromantic realism about the life of the body and his ear for the slang of his working-class characters.
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Interview by Irvine Welsh with Mary Riddell
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In the following interview, Welsh discusses his double past as junkie and business student, his political leanings, and his odd position of straddling fringe and mainstream culture.
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Critical Review by James Lasdun
1,479 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Lasdun discusses Trainspotting, The Acid House, and Marabou Stork Nightmares. Lasdun finds similarities between all three works, most notably in their examination of destructive impulses and the guilt that results.
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