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Figlio di un commerciante di tappeti e di una cameriera, cresciuto in un quartiere di case popolari, Irvine Welsh abbandona presto la scuola, per intraprendere vari lavori, tra cui lo spazzino (e proprio nel ruolo di uno spazzino comparirà in un cameo nel film The Acid House ), finché nel 1976 si trasferisce a Londra e aderisce al movimento punk.
Irvine Welsh has claimed Scotland’s high level of drug deaths is down to the country not having control of its own destiny and being on the “margins of British society”.
19 apr 2012 · 16,434 ratings753 reviews. Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh's colorful miscreants first went wrong. Marked by Irvine Welsh’s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started.
Copy text. “You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt.”. ― Irvine Welsh, quote from Trainspotting. Copy text. “Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.”. ― Irvine Welsh, quote from Trainspotting. Copy text. “Everything in the street today seems soft focus.”.
1 mar 2017 · March 1, 2017. For a moment, the garrulous Scottish author Irvine Welsh is uncharacteristically lost for words. Two decades after Trainspotting scorched up cinema screens, conveying the joys and ...
1 giu 1996 · Irvine Welsh: Ecstasy: Three Chemical Romances. Chris Mitchell. With the phenomenal success of Trainspotting (in all its various literary, filmic and dramatic guises), Irvine Welsh has moved from semi-literary obscurity to the centre of contemporary English writing. Trainspotting was one of those books that provoked people who hated reading to ...
Œuvres principales Trainspotting Crime modifier Irvine Welsh [ˈ ɜ ɹ v ɪ n w ɛ l ʃ] , né le 27 septembre 1958 à Édimbourg , est un écrivain écossais . Biographie [modifier | modifier le code] « Je n’appartiens pas tant à la classe moyenne qu’à la bourgeoisie. Je suis un gentleman du plaisir. J’écris. Je m’installe à ma fenêtre et je regarde mon jardin. J’aime les ...
