Skagboys - Welsh, Irvine
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Located in: Rossendale, United Kingdom
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Genre
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- ISBN
- 9780224087902
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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
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
240 mm
Item Weight
901 g
Item Width
162 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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