Trainspotting: A Screenplay

xi, 123 pp. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. Now a major motion picture from Miramax Films. "In Trainspotting, Alex Renton, an unrepentant drug abuser, is doing his best to escape the claims and responsibilities of life. Harrowing yet hilarious, Trainspotting charts the disintegration of a set of friends whose obsesssion with drugs and mayhem leads them inexorably to self-destruction. Introduced by the screenwriter, John Hodge, the book also contains an interview with Irvine Welsh, the author of the cult novel on which Trainspotting is based."