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PUBLISHER: Random House (Digital)
FORMAT: Electronic book text
ISBN: 9781407019901
RRP: £8.34
PAGES: 496
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 27, 2009
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Porno
Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon ‘Sick Boy’ Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew that includes the city’s favourite ex-aerated-water-salesman, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson. In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.
Reviews of Porno
"Funny and eloquently obscene" Daily Telegraph "A brilliant satirical study of the ugly dynamic which draws together predators and prey" Sunday Telegraph "Not for the fainthearted… Highly entertaining" Sunday Times "A worthy sequel… A touching love song to the possibilities and limits of friendship. Charming, funny and sly, Porno is a good poke at all kinds of pretence and moral tidiness" Evening Standard "Captures and celebrates the hangover of youth" Observer
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh is the author of eight previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.