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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Vintage Uk
Publication date
April 19, 2012
Pages
560
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780224087919
ISBN-10
0224087916
Dimensions
1.75 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.62 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$21.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an alternative version of it, Skagboys is Irvine Welsh's greatest work.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Editions
Hardcover
from W W Norton & Co Inc (September 17, 2012)
9780393088731 | details & prices | 532 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.75 in. | 1.96 lbs | List price $26.95
About: Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welshâs colorful miscreants first went wrong.
About: Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welshâs colorful miscreants first went wrong.
Paperback
from Editorial Anagrama (September 30, 2014)
9788433978936 | details & prices | 672 pages | List price $37.95
Reprint edition from W W Norton & Co Inc (June 17, 2013)
9780393345056 | details & prices | 658 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.50 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $16.95
The price comparison is for this edition
from Vintage Uk (April 19, 2012)
9780224087919 | details & prices | 560 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.75 in. | 1.62 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an alternative version of it, Skagboys is Irvine Welsh's greatest work.
About: Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an alternative version of it, Skagboys is Irvine Welsh's greatest work.
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