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Title	:	Skagboys (Mark Renton #1)
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 548 pages
Published	:	April 19th 2012 by Jonathan Cape
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Suspense. Drama. Contemporary

Skagboys (Mark Renton #1)

Irvine Welsh

Paperback | Pages: 548 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 14818 Users | 547 Reviews

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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 the world-renowned Trainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour that has made Irvine Welsh a household name.

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Original Title:	Skagboys
ISBN:	0224087916 (ISBN13: 9780224087919)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Mark Renton #1
Characters:	Spud, Mark Renton, Sickboy, Francis Begbie
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland,1985

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Even though I am a big fan Welsh's work, this book worked a lot better than I had expected.It is, of course the prequel to Trainspotting, and fills in the backgrounds of our favourite characters during the 1980s, including their introduction to heroin.Like Trainspotting, and many of Welsh's other books it is written in part in Scottish dialect.It amazes me, with the writing, how talented Welsh is to be able to have a different written form for each character. For each chapter before the narrator

Time to finally finish the whole Trainspotting series!

Despite the mixed reviews I had seen, I love the 'Trainspotting' boys and it was good to add to ther backstories with this prequel. Not as jovial as 'Porno' but with some fabulous gallows humour in places and when he tries, Mr Welsh describes his home town of Edina with a wonderfully bleak turn of phrase. A quality read, likeasay catboy :)

PERFECT I WANT MORESo happy to be reunited with these characters. Love these guys more than words can describe.



I confess I listened to this novel on audible, which means I understood about 60% of the content (I am more fluent in Swahili than I am in Scottish). Nevertheless, this was a gorgeous explosion of profanity, sexuality, violence, class despair and drug use. It barely had a beginning and certainly no obvious ending; the novel could have concluded a half dozen times before it actually did, but each time I was pleased when there was more to come, and I was sad when it actually finished.In 2018, much

Skagboys is the prequel to Trainspotting. Its colourful, mostly young characters hail from the Edinburgh port suburb of Leith. There is the bookish, unambitious Mark Rents Renton, and his best friend, the verbose, predatory womaniser Sick Boy. Others include harmless, accident-prone Spud, overweight ginger Keezbo, and the pathologically violent Franco Begbie.The friends get up to numerous, often humorous escapades, entailing drinking, partying, bedding members of the opposite sex, pranks at work