Skagboys
  • Published:
    Sep-2012 (Hardcover)
    Jun-2013 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Series:
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    1980's-1990's 20th Century
  • Pages:
    672
  • Rating:
  • Purchase:
  • Share:
Marked by Irvine Welsh s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started. Mark Renton has it all: the first in his family to attend university, he has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But when economic uncertainties and family problems intervene, Rent succumbs to the defeatism not to mention the drug use that has taken hold in Edinburgh s tougher quarters. His friends are responding according to personality. Laid off, Spud Murphy is paralyzed in the face of long-term unemployment. Sick Boy, supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, is scamming and hustling for money and drugs. And meanwhile, psycho Franco Begbie is scaring the hell out of everyone. Darkly humorous, Skagboys gives a gritty and gripping portrait of a time, not unlike ours, when money was scarce, unemployment was high, and drugs seemed the answer.
Sub-Genres
Click on any of the links above to see more books like this one.



EDITIONS
Sign in to see more editions
    •  
    • Jun-2013
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 039334505X
    • ISBN13: 9780393345056
    •  
    • May-2012
    • Random House
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0224087916
    • ISBN13: 9780224087919
    •  
    • Mar-2013
    • Random House (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099535599
    • ISBN13: 9780099535591
    •  
    • Apr-2013
    • Vintage
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099535580
    • ISBN13: 9780099535584
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0393088731
    • ISBN13: 9780393088731
    •  
    • May-2012
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0224087908
    • ISBN13: 9780224087902
    •  
    • Sep-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0393089894
    • ISBN13: 9780393089899
    •  
    • Sep-2012
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Sep-2012
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1409028232
    • ISBN13: 9781409028239



View the Complete Irvine Welsh Book List