Trainspotting (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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WELSH, Irvine. Trainspotting. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. Octavo. Full grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Sewn-in satin leather bookmark. 344 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published London: Secker Warburg, 1993. Irvine Welsh (b. 1958) grew up in Leith, the port district of Edinburgh, left school early, worked various jobs, and used heroin himself before studying for an MBA at Heriot-Watt University. Trainspotting , written over a period of years and published in 1993 by Secker Warburg — unusually, as a paperback original, because no publisher would commit to a hardback edition — arrived in British fiction like something that had broken in through a back window. The Sunday Times called it "the voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent." The novel is set in Edinburgh in the mid-1980s and follows a loose group of friends connected by heroin addiction, mutual loyalty, and the specific texture of life in a Scottish housing scheme in the era of Thatcher and mass unemployment. It has no single protagonist and no conventional plot: it proceeds through a series of linked episodes, each narrated in the voice of one of its characters — Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie, Tommy — in a dense, phonetically rendered Scots dialect th

• Binding: Hardcover

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