Literary Short stories 1993

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth.

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What it is

Strangers who become a family · pitch-black comedy

What happens in it

Found family

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Is it for you?

It's for you if…

  • you love a family people choose
  • you're drawn to the dark side of people
  • you want a book that doesn't look away

Maybe not if…

  • you're after something comforting
  • you'd rather skip the hard scenes

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