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Dead Men's Trousers

by Irvine Welsh · 2018

A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York Times called “Blisteringly funny…. ” The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act…until they are drawn back… more

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Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite.
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I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs.
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I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them
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You never know if he’s being ironic or dyslexic.
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You’re nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men’s trousers.
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We are nothing but consumers now: of sex, drugs, war, guns, clothes, TV shows.
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I’ve always enjoyed boyishness, never striven for maturity. Manhood is an ill-fitting cloak on my shoulders, like being dressed by somebody else.
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One day this magnificent charge will go, like vision, hearing, continence, and I hope it’s the very last of them to succumb.
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A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York Times called “Blisteringly funny…. ”

The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act…until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme—a scheme one of them won’t survive. It’s an action-packed, hilarious and rollicking trip, as well as a moving elegy to the crew.

“Welsh makes these amoral misadventures so propulsive, so joyfully awful, that you have to go with the flow…this roues’ romp is about as much fun as you can have between two book covers.”— The Times

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

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First published
2018
Genre
Fiction
Goodreads rating
4.18 (5k ratings)

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