Trainspotting (novel) grown eloquent". The novel has since achieved a cult status, added to by the global success of the film based on it, "Trainspotting" (1996), directed by Danny Boyle. Welsh wrote a sequel, "Porno", in 2002. "Skagboys", a novel that serves as a prequel, was published in April 2012. The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus. The novel's origins in short fiction are still visible though no segment or chapter is wholly independent of the others. The majority of the stories are narrated by the novel's central protagonist,
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