![]() ![]() ![]() At one point, Adam recalls watching Avatar on acid and ranting about how “there were people here, on this planet, suffering, being shat on, and there’s this prick painted blue getting all emotional about pixels”. ![]() While the squalor is sometimes laid on thick, there’s a thrilling sense that Griffiths is taking seriously lives that many novelists ignore and the book’s riotousness means it’s neither dour nor sermon-like. Adam goes on a cross-country bender that gets him caught up in another addict’s money-lending scam Cowley accepts cash to compete in illicit bloodsports Emma plunges into a vortex of rough, random sex. Pairing Irvine Welsh’s demotic vim with the conspiratorial frisson of a David Peace novel, it's strange and compellingīenefit sanctions and service cuts imperil the trio’s hard-won equilibrium. ![]()
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