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Published Sep 2009
288 pages
Genre: Short Stories
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Reheated Cabbage gathers stories showcasing Irvine Welsh’s trademark skills: vaulting imagination, brilliant vernacular ear, scabrous humor, and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction. You can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie at his Ma’s and see how he greets his sister’s boyfriend and news of their engagement. You’ll discover in “The Rosewell Incident” why aliens speak hardcore Scots English and plan to put Midlothian roughs in charge of the planet. And you’ll be delighted to welcome back “Juice” Terry Lawson and now internationally famous DJ Carl Ewart, and watch them as they meet an old nemesis, retired schoolmaster Albert Black, under the strobe lights of a Miami Beach nightclub. These stories, most first published in small magazines and out-of-print anthologies, are all wildly offbeat and will delight both fans of and newcomers to Welsh’s world. .
"...hilarious...Welsh shines most brilliantly when portraying his solipsistic Scots head-butting the rock-hard ceiling in hopes of escaping, be it through booze, drugs, soccer or sex, from a violent world that offers little peace but plenty of humor." - Publishers Weekly
"The stories are dated, true, but even Welsh's leftovers still have enough whiplash to leave a mark. " - Kirkus Reviews
"Readers of cult fiction with a specific, male, lurid sense of place—Hubert Selby Jr., Nelson Algren, or even Chuck Palahniuk—will enjoy the lacerating humor here." - Library Journal
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Irvine Welsh was born in the great city of Edinburgh, Scotland. His family moved from their tenement home in Leith, to the prefabs in West Pilton, and then onto Muirhouse's maisonette flats.
Welsh left Ainslie Park Secondary School when he was sixteen and had various jobs but did not really like work any more than he did school. Welsh eventually returned to Edinburgh where he worked for the city council in the housing department. He went on to study for an MBA at Heriot Watt University.
In Edinburgh, Welsh started to write. Digging out some old diaries, Welsh did a draft of what would become Trainspotting. Welsh published parts of this from 1991 onwards in DOG, the West Coast Magazine, and New Writing Scotland.
When Trainspotting was published in 1993, Welsh shot to fame. Despite ...
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