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Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, ...
Title
Skagboys
ISBN
0224087908
EAN
9780224087902
Type
Hardback
Binding
Hardback
Date of Publication
2012-04-19
Publication Name
N/A
Release Title
Skagboys
Artist
Welsh, Irvine
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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

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780224087902
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112392698

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2012
Topic
Books
Book Title
Skagboys
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Language
English
Author
Irvine Welsh
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
240 mm
Item Weight
901 g
Item Width
162 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Irvine Welsh

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VAT number: DE 281042328, EL 996857788, ES N8267548I, FR 27823676960, GB 922696893, IT 00185819992
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