FICTION
Released: May 1, 2001
"A treat for aficionados of local color and connoisseurs of street life and violence. And nearly 500 pages for everyone."
Welsh's eight-volume novel (
Filth, 1999;
Ecstasy, 1996, etc.) is a windy exposition lasting two decades and detailing the lives of four Scottish pals who sustain a long friendship.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 1996
"Magical, without a hint of cloying sentiment. (First serial to Grand Street)"
Welsh, Scotland's brightest young literary rebel (The Acid House, stories, p. 181), weighs in with a technically dazzling and emotionally wrenching portrait of working-class youth wasted in an emotional vacuum.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1995
"Welsh often settles for shock value, sleazy sex, and heroin chic, but he's actually a better writer than many who've been here before, especially Burroughs and his epigones."
A collection of 21 stories and one novella—Welsh's second book, but his first published stateside—that will inevitably be compared to last year's Booker winner, James Kelman.
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