In the last gasp of youth, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a motley crew that includes the neighborhood's favorite ex-beverage salesman, 'Juice' Terry.

In the world of Porno, however, even the cons are conned. Sick Boy and Renton jockey for top dog. The out-of-jail and in-for-revenge Begbie is on the loose. But it's the hapless, drug-addled Spud who may be spreading the most trouble.

Porno is a novel about the Trainspotting crew ten years further down the line: still scheming, still scamming, still fighting for the first-class seats as the train careens at high velocity with derailment looming around the next corner.

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).

In the fag-end of his youth, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in his native Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him represents one last throw of the dice.
To enable this scam to work out, Sick Boy needs bedfellows. A desirable one may be the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a young student with enough ambition, ego and troubles to rival his own. However, to realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Sick Boy gets teamed up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew that includes the city's favourite ex-aerated-water salesman, 'Juice' Terry Lawson.
In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straight-forward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, and, most of all, with each other.

format paperback edition of this novel which has been widely perceived as Welsh's best work for some time, telling the story of four young men from an Edinburh housing scheme. A powerful exploration of the nature of friendship, complete with

Although Irvine Welsh has reached the status of a cult author, this is in fact only his second novel. }Trainspotting{, his first, is soon to be made into a film by the team who brought us }Shallow Grave{. }Marabou Stork Nightmares{ sees Roy Str

ollowing the cult success of his first novel >Trainspotting<, this collection of Irvine Welsh's short stories went on to sell over 10,000 copies in Cape trade paperback. Uncompromising, unsettling, shocking and very funny, they range in style

Quattro ragazzi crescono insieme in uno squallido ghetto di Edimburgo. Sono Billy, Carl, Gally e Terry, i protagonisti di questo libro. Insieme condividono le prime esperienze che contano: le pestate con gli hooligans, le sbornie violente, il sesso cattivo e la droga tutta, dallo speed all'ecstasy. Insieme crescono: Billy diventa un pugile; Carl un dj strafatto e famosissimo; Gally un tossico sposato con Gail, ninfomane che lo pianterà; Terry un alcolizzato ossessionato dal sesso. Il loro mondo è tutto ai margini ma è anche un mondo in cui l'amicizia è l'unico legame, l'unica colla che tiene uniti anche i peggiori bastardi.

The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer, driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally, exceedingly thin-skinned and vulnerable to catastrophe at every turn. We follow their lives from the seventies into the new century—from punk to techno, from speed to E. Their mutual loyalty is fused in street morality: Back up your mates, don't hit women, and, most important, never snitch—on anyone. Glue has the Irvine Welsh trademarks—crackling dialogue, scabrous set pieces, and black, black humor—but it is also a grown-up book about growing up—about the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things become unstuck. 'Stocked with his usual quirky, sympathetic characters, this rollicking new tale sparkles with the writer's trademark satiric wit. Its heft and narrative breadth should convince any remaining skeptics that Welsh—now effectively the grand old man of in-your-face Scottish fiction—is a writer to be taken seriously.'—Publishers Weekly starred review

Ospedale di Edimburgo, rianimazione: Roy Strang giace in coma in seguito a un tentato suicidio, ma la sua mente è un continuo frullio di ricordi, sogni e deliri. Roy rivive l'infanzia e l'adolescenza in una famiglia di spostati, le botte prese, i traumi subiti; tutta la violenza incamerata esplode anni dopo, quando entra in una banda di hooligans e viene coinvolto in uno stupro di gruppo che lo lascia in preda a un vertiginoso senso di colpa. Alla rievocazione del terribile passato si intrecciano fantasie che sono proiezioni delle sue inquietudini.

Sono tempi duri per la polizia di Edimburgo: ristrutturazioni, cambiamenti nell'organico, l'opinione pubblica in subbuglio per il caso di Efan Wurie, il giornalista freelance di colore, figlio dell'ambasciatore del Ghana, ucciso a colpi di martello in pieno centro cittadino. Eppure, non sembra che a Bruce Robertson, incaricato di coordinare le indagini, le cose vadano poi così male. Dopo turni selvaggi di straordinario, l'irreprensibile 'Robbo' intende staccare la spina per un po' facendo un pieno natalizio di sesso e droga ad Amsterdam... E di rinunciare alla sua vacanza per risolvere il caso Wurie (un nero, dopotutto, mica uno di noi!) non se ne parla nemmeno. Però...

With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially--kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some painful below-the-belt eczema, and a string of demanding extramarital affairs. The last thing Robertson needs is a messy, racially fraught murder, even if it means overtime--and the opportunity to clinch the promotion he craves. Then there's that nutritionally demanding (and psychologically acute) intestinal parasite in his gut. Yes, things are going badly for this utterly corrupt tribune of the law, but in an Irvine Welsh novel nothing is ever so bad that it can't get a whole lot worse. . . .In Bruce Robertson Welsh has created one of the most compellingly misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, in a dark and disturbing and often scabrously funny novel about the abuse of everything and everybody. 'Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.'--Sunday Times [London]  '[O]ne of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit, and force, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.'--Times Literary Supplement 'Welsh writes with such vile, relentless intensity that he makes Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the French master of defilement, look like Little Miss Muffet. '--Courtney Weaver, The New York Times Book Review 'The corrupt Edinburgh cop-antihero of Irvine Welsh's best novel since Trainspotting is an addictive personality in another sense: so appallingly powerful is his character that it's hard to put the book down....[T]he rapid-fire rhythm and pungent dialect of the dialogue carry the reader relentlessly toward the literally filthy denouement. '--Village Voice Literary Supplement, 'Our 25 Favorite Books of 1998' 'Welsh excels at making his trash-spewing bluecoat peculiarly funny and vulnerable--and you will never think of the words 'Dame Judi Dench' in the same way ever again. [Grade:] A-. '--Charles Winecoff, Entertainment Weekly

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Il libro raccoglie ventun racconti di Irvine Welsh, il più consacrato romanziere della 'chemical generation'. In 'Acid house', l'anima di un hooligan impasticcato trasmigra nel corpo di un neonato, che incomincia a crescere a una velocità impressionante, ad amare il sesso e la birra e dopo poche settimane si fa portare allo stadio dalla madre. In 'I due filosofi', due eminenti professori universitari in perenne conflitto dialettico decidono di esporre le loro teorie in un pub malfamato: tutto finirà in una colossale rissa. La droga è al centro di 'Stoke Newington Blues', dove un uomo e una donna, rinchiusi in prigione, non esitano a denunciare il loro spacciatore di fiducia per riacquistare la libertà.

The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as 'the best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade' (London Sunday Times). This audacious novel is a brilliant (and literal) head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork keeps being interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state. It is the sort of lethally funny cocktail of pathos, violence, and outrageous hilarity that only Irvine Welsh can pull off.

With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance .

In 'Lorraine Goes to Livingston,' a bestselling authoress of Regency romances, paralyzed and bedridden, plans her revenge on gambling, whoring husband with the aid of her nurse Lorraine. In 'Fortune's Always Hiding,' flawed beauty Samantha Worthington enlists a smitten young soccer thug to find the man who marketed the drug that crippled her from birth—in order to give his a taste of his own disastrous medicine. In the upbeat final tale 'The Undefeated,' we experience the transfiguring passion of the miserably married young yuppie Heather and the raver Lloyd from Leith—a grand affair played out to a house music beat.

As these fools for love pursue it in all the wrong places, Ecstasy is guaranteed to set pulses racing and hearts aflutter.

Trainspotting is the novel that launched the sensational career of Irvine Welsh - an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating group portrait of blasted lives in Edinburgh that has the linguistic energy of A Clockwork Orange and the literary impact of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Begbie are as unforgettable a clutch of rude boys, junkies, and nutters as readers will ever encounter.