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 Greenfield his novel, "Ancient of Days", was on the "New York Post"'s bestseller list for six weeks, though his masterpiece is typically considered to be his novel, "Only the Dead Speak Russian". Irving Greenfield Irving A. Greenfield (born 1929) is a humanities professor and the prolific author of over 300 novels. He is best known as the writer of "Ancient of Days" and "Only the Dead Speak Russian". Dr. Irving Greenfield was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 22, 1928. Graduating from Brooklyn College in 1950, Greenfield spent two years in the Merchant Marine and served during the Korean War