In our time, writers are people with a rich imagination or with non-standard life experiences. Irwin Welch wrote his novels based on the events of the processes in which he took part. These are his books and valuable.
Foreword to Fate
Irwin Welch was born on September 27, 1958 in a working-class family. Parents lived in one of the districts of the famous Edinburgh. My father worked as a docker in the nearest port. Mother moonlighted as a waitress in a cafe. The child grew and formed in an environment of austerity and asceticism. Earnings were barely enough for food and clothing. It is important to note that this is how many families lived in the area. Irwin graduated from high school and received a degree in electrician. He did not dream of becoming a pilot or a sailor.
When Welsh was twenty years old, he moved to London. The young provincial hoped to earn a lot of money, to become famous and independent. Irwin was good at playing the guitar. This skill allowed him to easily "fit" into any vocal and instrumental collective. It was in such a "team" that he first tried drugs. I tried and thoroughly "hooked" on heroin. The consequences of addiction are not hard to imagine.
Fictional stories
When the HIV epidemic swept through London and the surrounding area in the mid-1980s, almost all of Irwin's acquaintances and friends passed away. Not to say that he was scared. Just a future writer looked at the events from a different point of view. He saw the reasons that made life peers bright and short. Among the social flaws, Welch cited housing problems, unemployment, beggarly wages, promiscuous sex, and drug addiction.
Irwin knew from his own experience how people live who "sit on the needle." Where he found strength in order to change the existing way of life is still not clear. Welsh started a real estate business. Gradually freeing himself from drug addiction, he returned to his native Edinburgh with the firm intention to take up the writing profession. Irwin received his special education at the College of Information Technology and immediately began writing his first novel.
