'THE VOICE OF PUNK, GROWN UP, GROWN WISER AND GROWN ELOQUENT' Sunday Times
AS CLEVER AS ALASDAIR GRAY, AS ELEGANT AS JEFF TORRINGTON, AS PASSIONATE AS JAMES KELMAN, WELSH HAS GOT IT ALL' TIBOR FISCHER
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.
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One of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit and force' NICK HORNBY, Times Literary Supplement
A novel perpetually in a starburst of verbal energy - a vernacular spectacular...the stories we hear are retched from the gullet' Scotland on Sunday
An unremitting powerhouse of a novel... Loud with laughter in the dark, this novel is the real McCoy' Glasgow Herald
The Scottish C ne' JAMES WOOD, Guardian