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
Clifford Irving first novel, "On a Darkling Plain" (1956), published by Putnam. Irving completed his second novel, "The Losers" (1958), while traveling in Europe. His third novel, "The Valley" (1960), is a mythic Western saga, published by McGraw-Hill. After returning to Ibiza, Irving became friendly with Hungarian art forger Elmyr de Hory. The painter asked him to write a biography, which was published as "Fake!" (1969). Irving and de Hory are both featured in Orson Welles' film documentary, "F for Fake" (1974). His first wife was Nina Wilcox. Their marriage was annulled in 1952. Later, on the Spanish island of Ibiza, he