'Dead Men's Trousers' Takes The Trainspotting Crew For A Last, Too-Long Ride
Irvine Welsh catches up with Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud — now middle aged and gone their separate ways — for what he says is the last installment in the Trainspotting saga.
by Jason Sheehan
Mar 01, 2019
4 minutes
" — Aye, Franco say, then eh admits. –Played aw that DMT stuff doon. It wis f***in wild but I didnae want Renton tae ken. Him and Sick Boy thegither: it eywis annoyed the f*** oot ay ays when they went on aboot drugs, f***in drugs, f***in drugs aw the time. A mean, take the c***s or dinnae; but dinnae f***in talk aboot them twenty-four/seven!"
Yeah, Irvine Welsh is back.
I mean, never really gone, right? Not with, like, a dozen books to his credit. So more apt, perhaps, to say that his most famous creations are back. The OG trainspotting), a sequel (), a spin-off (), and now this, , which Welsh himself is calling "the grand finale of ."
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