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![Days like this : a portrait of Scotland through the stories of its people. [Includes stories by Irvine Welsh and others].](/Library/images/~imageCT69831.JPG "Days like this : a portrait of Scotland through the stories of its people. [Includes stories by Irvine Welsh and others].")
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2018., Jonathan Cape Call No: SC Fic Wel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn't seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers?.
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2015., Jonathan Cape Call No: SC Fic Wel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without... A DECENT RIDE?.
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c2009., Adult, Vintage Books Call No: SC Fic Wel Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister's boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in "The Rosewell Incident", how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the local casuals as the new governors of Planet Earth. You will not be surprised to read that a televised Hibs v. Hearts game might matter more to one character than the life of his wife, or that two guys fighting over a beautiful girl might agree - on reflection, and after a few pills and many pints of lager - that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis, retired schoolmaster Albert Black, under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub. Most of the stories in "Reheated Cabbage" originally appeared in fugitive form in magazines and long-out-of-print anthologies."--Back cover.
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2014., Vintage Call No: SC Fic Wel Edition: 2nd ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client though she seems more interested in the trainerœs body than her own. When the two women find themselves more closely aligned, and canœt stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start...
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[2004], p1996., Adult, distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Video, : distributed exclusively in Canada by Alliance Video Call No: SC DVD Fic Trainspotting Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Miramax collector's seriesSummary Note: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
![Trainspotting [DVD] (1996). Directed by Danny Boyle.](/Library/images/~imageCT85758.JPG "Trainspotting [DVD] (1996). Directed by Danny Boyle.")
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2008, 1993., Random House Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy.
![Trainspotting [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT75233.JPG "Trainspotting [eBook]")