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.