Skagboys addict is the ultimate individualist.." "" remarks, "It was known that there was more material of "Trainspotting" than went into the final draft, but that’s true of most novels. So you anticipate a lashed-together series of outtakes and bloopers. What you get is something quite different. The prequel has all the marvellous set pieces, the schemes, stories, scams and dreams and the same mad profusion of narrators that characterises everything Welsh has written. But it’s long, strange, full of lush description that gives the whole thing a haunting and elegiac quality". Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer
Irving A. Leonard Irving A. Leonard Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut – October 1, 1996 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American historian and translator, specialising in Hispanic history and art. His best known publications are "Books of the Brave" (1949) and "Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices" (1959), which won the Conference on Latin American History award for the best book in English. "Books of the Brave", a valuable account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World, was updated in 1992. He had many papers published in the "American Historical Review"