Skagboys
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Skagboys
AUTHOR:
Welsh, Irvine.
ISBN:
9780099535584
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Vintage, 2013.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
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) |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.