Skagboys
Title:
Skagboys
Author:
Welsh, Irvine.
ISBN:
9780099535584
Publication Information:
London : Vintage, 2013.
Physical Description:
548 p. ; 20 cm
General Note:
Shortlisted for Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Political Fiction Book of the Year 2013.
Abstract:
Mark Renton has it all, but there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britian, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, the only way out is heroin.
Subject:
| Young men -- Scotland -- Fiction. |
| Drug addicts -- Scotland -- Fiction. |
| Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction. |
| Black humor (Literature) |
Summary:
Mark Renton has it all, but there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britian, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, the only way out is heroin.