Porno
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Ten years after the events that made Trainspotting a cultural phenomenon, Irvine Welsh drags his iconic cast of Edinburgh misfits back into the light — and into something far more depraved. Porno reunites Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie in a darkly comedic collision of ambition, betrayal, and moral bankruptcy, as Sick Boy's grandiose scheme to produce a low-budget pornographic film pulls everyone back into the orbit of chaos they thought they had escaped. Welsh chronicles the lure of easy money and the seductive pull of old habits with savage wit, painting a portrait of post-Thatcher Scotland where entrepreneurial dreams and personal degradation are practically indistinguishable. Welsh's prose remains an assault on the senses — raw, phonetically rendered in Scots dialect, and ferociously funny — illustrating how little his characters have grown, and how much their city has changed around them. Porno is simultaneously a blistering satire of the commodification of desire and a deeply human study of loyalty, regret, and the impossibility of reinvention. Readers who thought they knew these men will find themselves confronted with uncomfortable truths about who — and what — we choose to become when no one is watching.
Author: Irvine Welsh
Format: Hardback
Published: 2002, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Ten years after the events that made Trainspotting a cultural phenomenon, Irvine Welsh drags his iconic cast of Edinburgh misfits back into the light — and into something far more depraved. Porno reunites Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie in a darkly comedic collision of ambition, betrayal, and moral bankruptcy, as Sick Boy's grandiose scheme to produce a low-budget pornographic film pulls everyone back into the orbit of chaos they thought they had escaped. Welsh chronicles the lure of easy money and the seductive pull of old habits with savage wit, painting a portrait of post-Thatcher Scotland where entrepreneurial dreams and personal degradation are practically indistinguishable. Welsh's prose remains an assault on the senses — raw, phonetically rendered in Scots dialect, and ferociously funny — illustrating how little his characters have grown, and how much their city has changed around them. Porno is simultaneously a blistering satire of the commodification of desire and a deeply human study of loyalty, regret, and the impossibility of reinvention. Readers who thought they knew these men will find themselves confronted with uncomfortable truths about who — and what — we choose to become when no one is watching.