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Skagboys (Paperback)
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Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an
alternative version of it, Skagboys""is Irvine Welsh's greatest
work.
Mark Renton seems to have it all: he's the first in his family to
go to university, he's young, has a pretty girlfriend and a great
social life. But Thatcher's government is destroying working-class
communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full
employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone.
When his badly handicapped younger brother dies the family bonds
start to weaken, his life flips out of control, and he succumbs to
the defeatism and the heroin which has taken hold in Edinburgh's
grimmer areas.
His friends face similar challenges. Spud Murphy is paid off from
his job and faces long-term unemployment, while Tommy Lawrence
feels that only love can save him from being sucked into a life of
petty crime and violence -- exemplified respectively by the
thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. And then there
is Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, scamming
and hustling his way through life.
Skagboys""charts their journey from likely lads to young men
addicted to the heroin which has flooded their disintegrating
community. This is the 1980s: not the sanitized version, of upbeat
pop music, mullets, shoulder-pads and MTV, but a time of drugs,
poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred -- and maybe
just a little love; a decade which changed Britain for ever. The
prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, this is an
exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty
vernacular and appalling behaviour that has made Irvine Welsh a
household name.
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Imprint: |
Vintage
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2013 |
First published: |
2012 |
Authors: |
Irvine Welsh
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
548 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-09-953558-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-09-953558-0 |
Barcode: |
9780099535584 |
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