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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, 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Filth
• Author: Irvine Welsh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780099591115
• ISBN: 0099591111
• ID: 04019858
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 296 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. August 1999

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