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120420s2012 enk 000 f eng d
GBB201726
bnb
016004613
Uk
9780224087902 (hbk.)
0224087908 (hbk.)
9780224087919 (pbk.)
(OCoLC)772968095
UKMGB
UKMGB
VFRK
823.92
23
Welsh, Irvine.
16351
Skagboys /
Irvine Welsh.
London :
Jonathan Cape,
2012.
548 p. ;
24 cm.
Trainspotting
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. This book charts their journey from likely lads to young men addicted to the heroin which has flooded their disintegrating community. This is the 1980s: a time of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred - but a lot of laughs, and maybe just a little love; a decade which changed Britain for ever. The prequel to Trainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour.
Humorous fiction.
6779
Nineteen nineties
Fiction.
16352
Heroin
Fiction.
16353
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Social conditions
20th century
Fiction.
16354
Suspense fiction.
gsafd
183
Welsh, Irvine.
Trainspotting.
16355
ddc
BKS
0
0
ddc
0
0
G.F.
ATH
ATH
Shelf
2012-06-06
James Bennett
4
WEL
052843
2017-03-08 00:00:00
2017-02-20
2012-05-21
BKS
68121
68121