Skagboys

Skagboys
Irvine Welsh
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 560pg
11 Apr 2013 UK
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9780099535584
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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 longterm 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.
"Masterful... its banter, outrage and razor wit sing off the page" Independent "Brilliant and even more thrilling than its predecessor" Mail on Sunday "Quite simply a masterpiece" Scotsman "A brilliantly funny, scary, sweeping novel with all the energy of Welsh's debut" Independent on Sunday "Funny...visceral and true... Welsh's finest work to date" The Times
Irvine Welsh is the author of eight previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780099535584
Published: 11 Apr 2013
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 560
Dewey: 823.914

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