Filth
by:
Irvine Welsh (author)
DS Bruce Robertson is planning on kicking his festive season off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam, but it starts off quite badly, with a missing wife, a cocaine habit, a deterioration in his genital health, and a messy murder to solve. By the author of TRAINSPOTTING.
DS Bruce Robertson is planning on kicking his festive season off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam, but it starts off quite badly, with a missing wife, a cocaine habit, a deterioration in his genital health, and a messy murder to solve. By the author of TRAINSPOTTING.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099284291 (0099284294)
Publish date: July 1st 1999
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 393
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Humor,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Culture,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Crime,
Dark
I loved the recurring theme of filth in this book. The main character is dirty in every sense of the word, so much so that he has worms. He's filthy in body and morals, a bad person in every sense. Of course he's a pig.
Filth is a book best read in small doses. Anybody who’s read Irvine Welsh’s literary flagship, Trainspotting, will have some idea what to expect when picking this up. Personally, I think it’s actually a better book. I mentioned in an old post that I never finished Trainspotting. I’d like to some d...
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