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by Irvine Welsh

Simon Sick Boy Williamson (first met in Trainspotting) returns to his native Edinburgh. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, this time around he's a nascent film director, dreaming of directing and producing a pornographic film.

by Irvine Welsh

Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career--an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.