T2 Trainspotting (Film Tie-In edition)

　　選擇生活、選擇工作、選擇第一棟房子、
　　選擇牙醫保險、休閒服和相配的行李箱。
　　選擇你的未來，但是為何會有人想要做這樣的事情？
　　
　　住在蘇格蘭愛丁堡附近沒落小鎮雷斯的年輕人，馬克（懶蛋）、賽門（變態男）、屎霸（丹尼）和卑比（法蘭哥），他們靠著領取和詐騙救濟金（其他偷雞摸狗的事情也幹得不少）維生，生活中除了毒品，就是酒精、暴力和女人；生活週遭，不是失業者、在社會底層掙扎求生的人，就是臭味相投的小混混。
　　
　　馬克雖然一心一意要戒毒，但總是沒戒多久就又毒癮發作而放棄；賽門愛吸安，但是更愛性，他的生活中除了安非他命，就是女人；丹尼個性懦弱，不願意傷害別人，卻總是被人傷害；法蘭哥是個暴力狂，愛充老大，總是領頭做壞事。
　　
　　這四個從小一起長大的同伴，經歷過好友罹患愛滋病、朋友吸毒而截肢、兄長從軍誤中陷阱被炸死……等事件之後，最後決定聯手幹一票大買賣，打算分贓之後，各自過著自己夢想中的美好人生。沒想到，最受大家信賴的馬克，竟然背叛了多年好友……

　　*本書中譯本<<猜火車>>由商周出版
　

　　Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting

　　Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Still scheming, still scamming, Sick Boy and Renton soon find out that they have unresolved issues to address concerning the unhinged Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.

作者簡介

厄文．威爾許（Irvine Welsh）

　　一九五八年出生於愛丁堡雷斯市，他是個廣受讚譽的蘇格蘭小說家，《猜火車》是他第一部，也是最著名的作品。其他著作包括短篇小說集《酸臭之屋》（Acid House）、《禿鸛夢魘》（The Marabou Stork Nightmare）、《狂喜》（Ecstasy）、《骯髒》（Filth）、《膠》（Glue） 、《春宮電影》（Porno）、《大廚的臥房秘密》（The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs），以及最近期的作品《愛學校、愛工作》（If You Liked School You'll Love Work）。厄文‧威爾許除了小說創作，也撰寫舞台劇及電影劇本，也導演過短片。他現定居於英國倫敦。

　　Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Raised in the tenement homes of Leith, the prefabs in West Pilton and the maisonettes in Muirhouse, he attended Ainslie Park Secondary School. At sixteen, he left education and took on various jobs, and eventually moved to London in the seventies. There he dabbled with the property market while spending his free time exploring the London punk scene. He then moved back to Edinburgh to study an MBA.

　　Back home, and inspired by the nineties rave scene, he was fortunate enough to run into some fascinating characters whom he immortalised in his diary – and, later, in the pages of Trainspotting. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content, Trainspotting shot Welsh to fame, precipitated further by the release of the film, by Danny Boyle, three years later.

　　Since then he has written eight other works of fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.