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Trainspotting (Paperback)
by Irvine Welsh (Author) "The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling..." (more)
Key Phrases: shitein cunt, cunt sais, tae git, Sick Boy, White Swan, Billy Boy (more...)

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Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy.

The New York Times Book Review, Mark Jolly
Blisteringly funny ... don't abandon everything for the movie. It's worth making the effort with Trainspotting not merely because relatively few writers have rummaged through this particular enclave of British youth culture, but because even fewer have dug there so deeply.

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Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st American Ed edition (May 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393314804
ISBN-13: 978-0393314809
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,566 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Key Phrases - SIPs: shitein cunt, cunt sais, tae git, sais tae, git ootay (more)

Key Phrases - CAPs: Sick Boy, White Swan, Billy Boy, Johnny Swan, Mother Superior (more)

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First Sentence:
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shitein cunt, cunt sais, tae git, sais tae, git ootay, dae aboot, fuckin bairn, nae cunt, thir wis, git tae fuck, look eftir, thir isnae, tae huv, dinnae git, fuckin score, dinnae gie, doss cunt, ower tae, cunt thit, fuckin erse, whae wis, wee cunt, couldnae handle, doon oan, hard cunt

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sick Boy, White Swan, Billy Boy, Johnny Swan, Mother Superior, Rent Boy, Fat Sow, Happy New Year, Young Simon, British Rail, Easter Road, Perfume James, Planet Ay The Apes, Alan Venters, Frank Begbie, George Heriots, West Granton, Iggy Pop, Uncle Kenny, Aberdeen University,