Trainspotting

"Welsh dropped me into an utterly foreign, perfectly seamless universe, one compounded of 'housing schemes,' culturally endemic alcoholism, lethally fanatical football supporters, and heroin addiction....This was provincial fiction with its balls out, managing to be globally relevant by insisting on being its own most impenetrably regional self. Where they once had been colonized by the English, these people were now colonized by American videos, international mall-culture, and smack. Not a pretty picture and easily one of the two or three best books I read last year."Welsh, Irvine is the author of 'Trainspotting', published 1996 under ISBN 9780393314809 and ISBN 0393314804.