Set in Edinburgh in the 1990s, Irvine Welsh’s first novel Trainspotting loosely follows the various escapades of a group of discontented young wasters who spend their days trying to escape their flawed and mediocre existences with the help of, for the most part; “the life-giving and life taking elixir”(heroin).
The fractured narrative consisting of appalling, riveting and, at times, sadistically hilarious situations draws the reader into the seedy Scottish underbelly — awash with speed, smack, sex, and sin — seemingly for the fun of it. But to say, as many critics have, that…
