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14 de may. de 2021 · Skagboys. Mark Renton has it all, but there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britian, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone.
13 de jun. de 2020 · 548 pages ; 25 cm. 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.
Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel Trainspotting, and its 2002 sequel Porno. It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction.
Skagboys. Irvine Welsh. W. W. Norton & Company, Sep 17, 2012 - Fiction - 672 pages. Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s...
Irvine Welsh. Jonathan Cape, 2012 - Fiction - 548 pages. Both a prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, and an alternative version of it, Skagboys is Irvine Welsh's greatest work. Mark...
19 de abr. de 2012 · Skagboys revisits the sunny port of Leith and adjoining Edinburgh, and the eclectic cast of characters that made up Welsh's debut effort - the drugged-out classic Trainspotting. All your skeevy old pals are here... ever-acerbic Mark Renton, sweet natured Spud, scheming Sickboy and, naturally, the delightfully psychotic pugilist, Begbie.
19 de abr. de 2012 · First published April 19, 2012. Book details & editions. About the author. Irvine Welsh. 140 books6,925 followers. Follow. Probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish Heroin addicts, Trainspotting (1993), Welsh focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use.
