Skagboys
Apr 2012 · Random House
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*Number #1 Bestseller**
BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control. The way out is heroin.
It's no better for his friends - Spud Murphy is laid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence finds himself sucked into a life of petty crime, violence and the world of the psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. Exhilarating and moving, Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young addicts in a decade which changed Britain forever.
'Masterful... its banter, outrage and razor wit sing off the page' Independent
'Funny...visceral and true... Welsh's finest work to date' The Times
BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS
Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control. The way out is heroin.
It's no better for his friends - Spud Murphy is laid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence finds himself sucked into a life of petty crime, violence and the world of the psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. Exhilarating and moving, Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young addicts in a decade which changed Britain forever.
'Masterful... its banter, outrage and razor wit sing off the page' Independent
'Funny...visceral and true... Welsh's finest work to date' The Times
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4.6
117 reviews
Dan Smith
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June 15, 2015
The prequel to trainspotting, which was the prequel to porno. I don't know why but I found this harder to read than the previous releases, maybe I'm getting softer in my old age but following the initial roads that led up to heroin addiction left me overwhelmed with emotions more than once. Irvine has done it again. Classic hard hitting real life reality horror/thriller. I would still recommend reading trainspotting and then porno first.
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March 26, 2013
Brilliant read!! Once again were thrown back into The Welsh Edinburgh, for a third installment of parody, philosophy, crime and debauchery through a rag-tag entourage of familiar faces. The story follows centre-pinned characters Mark Renton and Sick-Boy as they find adulthood, love, pain and sickness through the rose tinted glare of Thatchers finest Salesbury Crag. More open and honest than Trainspotting, and darker than Porno - no better combination of words could round out the stories of some of writings most enthrawling charcters.
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Kekno Wauver
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November 30, 2015
This book excels in portraying the harrowing turn of events, that lead some to heroin. Urban social decay. The hardest to read of the trilogy, for me personally. Welsh pulls no punches. Welcome to the projects...
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About the author
Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written thirteen further novels, including the number one bestseller Dead Men’s Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Crime and The Long Knives have been adapted into a television series starring Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.
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