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,
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"