Skagboys - Rilegato

Welsh, Irvine

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0393088731 ISBN 13: 9780393088731

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2012

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393088731
• ISBN 13: 9780393088731
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 532