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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication date September 17, 2012
Pages 532
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780393088731
ISBN-10 0393088731
Dimensions 1.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Original list price $26.95
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Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong.

Marked by Irvine Welsh’s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started. Mark Renton has it all: the first in his family to attend university, he has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But when economic uncertainties and family problems intervene, Rent succumbs to the defeatism―not to mention the drug use―that has taken hold in Edinburgh’s tougher quarters. His friends are responding according to personality. Laid off, Spud Murphy is paralyzed in the face of long-term unemployment. Sick Boy, supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, is scamming and hustling for money and drugs. And meanwhile, psycho Franco Begbie is scaring the hell out of everyone. Darkly humorous, Skagboys gives a gritty and gripping portrait of a time, not unlike ours, when money was scarce, unemployment was high, and drugs seemed the answer.

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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 Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780224087919 Book cover for 9788433978936
 
from Editorial Anagrama (September 30, 2014)
9788433978936 | details & prices | 672 pages | List price $37.95
About: Edimburgo, inicios de los '80.
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
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.

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