For 10 points, name this episodic novel, largely written in the Scots dialect and following "Sick Boy," Mark Renton, and other heroin addicts, written by Irvine Welsh.
A character in this novel is reminded of a verse from the Smiths song "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" when he fails to put his arm around a woman. This novel opens in a movie theater, where the narrator is unable to watch Jean-Claude van Damme beat up a guy, because his friend begs to be taken to "Mother Superior." A character in this novel tries and fails to win his girlfriend back by getting her a kitten, so he lets the kitten (*) pee and shit all over his apartment, contracting the toxoplasmosis that eventually kills him. The protagonist of this novel makes off with an athletic bag containing the proceeds from the one final drug deal that the Skag Boys rope him into after he goes clean. For 10 points, name this episodic novel, largely written in the Scots dialect and following "Sick Boy," Mark Renton, and other heroin addicts, written by Irvine Welsh.
A character in this novel is reminded of a verse from the Smiths song "
Trainspotting