Filth
| Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1999-10-05
EAN: 9780099591115
ISBN: 0099591111
Edition Info: 416 pages
With The Festive Season Almost Upon Him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson Is Winding Down At Work And Gearing Up Socially - Kicking Off Christmas With A Week Of Sex And Drugs In Amsterdam. There Are Irritating Flies In The Ointment, Though, Including A Missing Wife, A Nagging Cocaine Habit, A Dramatic Deterioration In His Genital Health, A String Of Increasingly Demanding Extra-Marital Affairs. The Last Thing He Needs Is A Messy Murder To Solve. Still It Will Mean Plenty Of Overtime, A Chance To Stitch Up Some Collegues And Finally Clinch The Promotion He Craves. But As Bruce Spirals Through The Lower Reaches Of Degradation And Evil, He Encounters Opposition - In The Form Of Truth And Ethical Concience - From The Most Unexpected Quarter Of All: His Anus. In Bruce Robertson, Welsh Has Created One Of The Most Corrupt, Misanthropic Characters In Contemporary Fiction , And Has Writt En A Dark, Disturbing And Very Funny Novel About Sleaze, Power, And The A Buse Of Everything. At Last, A Novel That Lives Up To Its Name.
Categories: Contemporary Fiction
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