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Filth a novel

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, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health.

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  • "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, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health."@en
  • "James McAvoy stars as a corrupt, sociopathic Edinburgh cop in director Jon S. Baird's fast-paced black comedy, adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh. Bored with his duties as a Detective Sergeant in the Edinburgh police force, Bruce Robertson (McAvoy) gorges himself on a mixture of cocaine, alcohol, sexually abusive relationships and endless junk food, whilst plotting to get one over on his colleagues in his quest for a promotion. But although he nurses hopes of getting back together with his ex-wife Carole (Shauna MacDonald), Bruce soon finds his life spiralling out of control, when his drug addiction and unchecked psychological issues combine to test his grip on reality and push him over the edge."
  • "Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is ready to kick off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam when a messy murder gets in the way. By the author of Trainspotting."@en
  • "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 colleagues 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 conscience - 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 written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleaze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name."@en
  • "A satirical crime novel with a repulsive hero. As he investigates the murder of an African in Edinburgh, detective Bruce Robertson indulges in every imaginable obscenity, his activities commented on periodically by the tapeworm in his gut."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Powieść kryminalna angielska"
  • "Black humor (Literature)"
  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
  • "Skotské romány"
  • "Experimental fiction"
  • "Scottish fiction (English)"
  • "Anglicky psané romány"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl

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  • "Paska"@fi
  • "Paska"
  • "Drecksau : Roman"
  • "Sviňák"
  • "Filth a novel"@en
  • "Une ordure : roman"
  • "Der'mo"
  • "Une ordure"
  • "Filth : a novel"
  • "Filth : a novel"@en
  • "Il lercio : romanzo"@it
  • "Ohyda"
  • "Ohyda"@pl
  • "Derʹmo"
  • "Afskum : roman"@da
  • "Escoria"@es
  • "Escoria"
  • "Drecksau Roman"
  • "필스 : 어빈 웰시 장편 소설"
  • "Brud"@pl
  • "Smeris"
  • "Дерьмо"
  • "P'ilsŭ : Ŏbin Welsi changp'yŏn sosŏl"
  • "Lixo"
  • "Il lercio"@it
  • "Il lercio"
  • "Afskum"
  • "Drecksau"
  • "Smeće"
  • "Filth"
  • "Filth"@en
  • "Filth"@da

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