Skagboys by Irvine Welsh (Hardcover, 2012)

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Jonathan Cape, London 2012 / Hardback. UK First Edition and First Impression. Edition: 1st Edition. Binding: Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

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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. 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 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. Skagboys 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

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PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224087902
eBay Product ID (ePID)112392698

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Publication Year2012
TopicBooks
Book TitleSkagboys
Number of Pages560 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorIrvine Welsh
FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height240 mm
Item Weight901 g
Item Width162 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorIrvine Welsh

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