TrainspottingIrvine Welsh BACKLIST June 17, 1996 9780393314809, 0393314804 Paperback Fiction Urban & Street Lit 368 pages 21. 1 cm H 14 cm W 2. 3 cm T 281. 2 g Wt Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular careeran authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother