Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh [0]
Irvine Welsh is the author of nine other works of fiction, most recently Crime, published by Jonathan Cape in 2008. He lives in Dublin.
ALSO BY IRVINE WELSH
Fiction
The Acid House
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Ecstasy
Filth
Glue
Porno
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work . . .
Crime
Drama
You’ll Have Had Your Hole
Screenplay
The Acid House
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Copyright © Irvine Welsh 1993
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First published in Great Britain in 1993 by Secker & Warburg
First published by Vintage in 1999
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Thanks to the following: Lesley Bryce, David Crystal, Margaret Fulton-Cook, Janice Galloway, Dave Harrold, Duncan McLean, Kenny McMillan, Sandy Macnair, David Millar, Robin Robertson, Julie Smith, Angela Sullivan, Dave Todd, Hamish Whyte, Kevin Williamson.
Versions of the following stories have appeared in other publications: ‘The First Day Of The Edinburgh Festival’ in Scream If You Want To Go Faster: New Writing Scotland 9 (ASLS), ‘Traditional Sunday Breakfast’ in DOG (Dec. 1991), ‘It Goes Without Saying’ in West Coast Magazine No. 11, ‘Trainspotting at Leith Central Station’ in A Parcel of Rogues (Clocktower Press), ‘Grieving and Mourning In Port Sunshine’ in Rebel Inc No. 1 and ‘Her Man, The Elusive Mr Hunt’ and ‘Winter In West Granton’ in Past Tense (Clocktower Press). The second part of ‘Memories of Matty’ also appeared in the aforementioned Clocktower Press publication as ‘After The Burning’.
Contents
Kicking
The Skag Boys, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mother Superior; Junk Dilemmas No. 63; The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival; In Overdrive; Growing Up In Public; Victory On New Year’s Day; It Goes Without Saying; Junk Dilemmas No. 64; Her Man; Speedy Recruitment
Relapsing
Scotland Takes Drugs In Psychic Defence; The Glass; A Disappointment; Cock Problems; Traditional Sunday Breakfast; Junk Dilemmas No. 65; Grieving and Mourning In Port Sunshine
Kicking Again
Inter Shitty; Na Na and Other Nazis; The First Shag In Ages; Strolling Through The Meadows
Blowing It
Courting Disaster; Junk Dilemmas No. 66; Deid Dugs; Searching for the Inner Man; House Arrest; Bang To Rites; Junk Dilemmas No. 67
Exile
London Crawling; Bad Blood; There Is A Light That Never Goes Out; Feeling Free; The Elusive Mr Hunt
Home
Easy Money for the Professionals; A Present; Memories of Matty; Straight Dilemmas No. 1; Eating Out; Trainspotting at Leith Central Station; A Leg-Over Situation; Winter In West Granton; A Scottish Soldier
Exit
Station to Station
Kicking
The Skag Boys, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Mother Superior
The sweat wis lashing oafay Sick Boy; he wis trembling. Ah wis jist sitting thair, focusing oan the telly, tryin no tae notice the cunt. He wis bringing me doon. Ah tried tae keep ma attention oan the Jean-Claude Van Damme video.
As happens in such movies, they started oaf wi an obligatory dramatic opening. Then the next phase ay the picture involved building up the tension through introducing the dastardly villain and sticking the weak plot thegither. Any minute now though, auld