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Irvine Welsh Keenly Appropriates the Boilerplate American Crime Novelnew
It's amazing what a linguistically gifted writer can do once he decides to wander outside the confines of his comfort zone.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-30-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: crime, Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh's Wimpy 'Crime'new
Welsh, known best for his druggy humor, gleefully scatological bent and the gruff pub vernacular of his characters, plays it amazingly straight and close to the vest in his most recent novel, Crime. So close and earnest, in fact, that you can hardly believe you're reading Welsh.
NOW Magazine |
David Jager |
09-29-2008 |
Fiction
Tags: Irvine Welsh
The 'Bedroom Secrets' of Irvine Welshnew
The Scottish novelist holds forth on drugs, politics, love and old people in Seattle.
Pasadena Weekly |
Justin Chapman |
10-13-2006 |
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