I tried this before the film came out and found the Scottish dialect difficult to cope with and gave up. Then I saw the film and was able to return to the book with their voices in my head and found it to be very different and absolutely brilliant; not for the faint-hearted.
Listen to an audio extract by clicking on the orange arrow below.
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh by Random House Audiobooks
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Trainspotting features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Trainspotting is available in Hardback, Paperback
Trainspotting was written by Irvine Welsh and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House
Trainspotting has 448 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Quarterbound Classics series
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