Irvine Welsh Men in Love review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuw roman van de Schotse schrijver. Op 24 juli 2025 verschijnt bij Jonathan Cape de roman van Irvine Welsh de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijver die vooral bekend is van zijn boek Trainspotting. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Irvine Welsh Men in Love review en recensie
- “There are plenty of moments that showcase Welsh at his best, impertinent and loose and attuned to the poetic cadence of everyday speech. When his writing hits these heights, most often during flights of knowing, referential, rhetorical fancy, it is hard not to be charmed by its flair and insolence.” (The Guardian)
- “His paciest, funniest book in years.” (The Scotsman)
Men in Love
- Auteur: Irvine Welsh (Schotland)
- Soort boek: Schotse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Jonathan Cape
- Verschijnt: 24 juli 2025
- Omvang: 544 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: £ 20,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Irvine Welsh
It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.
Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.
Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last.
But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest?
Irvine Welsh was born on 27 September 1958 in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fourteen further novels, including the number one Sunday Times bestseller Dead Men’s Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.