Name: Men in Love
Price: 407.00 ZAR
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Author: Irvine Welsh
ISBN: 9781787335752

Type

Physical Book

Author

Irvine Welsh

Publisher

Jonathan Cape Ltd

Year

2025

Language

English

Pages

544

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.2cm x 16.3cm

ISBN13

9781787335752

Men in Love

Irvine Welsh (Author) · Jonathan Cape Ltd · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Men in Love"

'There wasn’t an album they wouldn’t buy, or a drug they wouldn’t try. Then it spiralled out of control . . .They were left with nothing. Nothing but the eternal quest of all men: the search for love.'

Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born and moving into the 1990s, Men In Love reunites the Trainspotting crew for a riotous new journey.

Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event: Sick Boy’s wedding day.

But is falling in love the answer, or just another doomed quest?

The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment and it had a huge influence on me… It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive - DOUGLAS STUART, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo (on Trainspotting)

The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent - Sunday Times (on Trainspotting)

So propulsive...about as much fun as you can have between two book covers - The Times (on Dead Men's Trousers)

No one captures the competing affections and resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh - Esquire (on Dead Men's Trousers)

A bold, electric new chapter in the Trainspotting universe… Darkly funny, blisteringly sharp, and emotionally raw, Men in Love is a story about yearning, identity, and whether love can ever truly save us from ourselves - Essential Marbella Magazine

Electrifying - Country & Town House

There are plenty of moments that showcase Welsh at his best… it is hard not to be charmed by its flair and insolence… [and] Welsh has not lost his feel for the particular rhythms and textures of addiction - Guardian

Drugs, bad sex, ripe Scottish vernacular… the colloquial vigour of the writing never flags - Mail on Sunday

Irvine Welsh

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Irvine Welsh es un novelista, guionista y escritor escocés nacido en Leith, Edimburgo, en 1958. Considerado una de las voces más influyentes de la literatura británica contemporánea, alcanzó notoriedad internacional con Trainspotting (1993), una obra que retrata con crudeza y humor negro la vida de jóvenes de la clase trabajadora en Escocia. Su experiencia en los ambientes urbanos de Edimburgo y Londres, así como su interés por los márgenes de la sociedad, han marcado profundamente su narrativa. Welsh es conocido por el uso del dialecto escocés y por construir historias pobladas por personajes complejos, a menudo enfrentados a la adicción, la exclusión social y la búsqueda de identidad.

Entre sus obras verificadas destacan Trainspotting, The Acid House, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Filth, Glue, Porno y Skagboys. Esta última novela, publicada en 2012, funciona como precuela de Trainspotting y explora los orígenes de personajes emblemáticos como Mark Renton y Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson antes de su caída en la drogadicción. A lo largo de su carrera, Welsh también ha trabajado en cine, teatro y televisión, consolidando un universo literario interconectado que ha influido en generaciones de lectores y escritores.

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