Novel in Scotland Disaffection" (1989) were among the first novels to fully utilise a working class Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's "Poor Things" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), "Trainspotting" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in contemporary Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) "Morvern Callar" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s "How Late It Was, How Late" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of
Concordia University Irvine preparatory college for the Pacific Southwest. In 1962, the LCMS agreed to build the school. A search committee commissioned by the district considered 87 sites before commercial and residential real estate developer The Irvine Company offered the present location in Irvine. In 1973, Rev. Dr. Charles Manske accepted the call from the district to be the founding president of Christ College Irvine. In February 1993, the Board of Regents of Christ College Irvine voted to change the school's name to Concordia University Irvine. At that time, the university became the tenth campus in the national Concordia University System (CUS). In