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Skagboys

Mark Renton's life seems to be on track: university, pretty girlfriend, even social success. But, in this prequel to Trainspotting, after the death of his younger brother, Rent falls apart and starts hanging around with his old pals, including Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, and being drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans.

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  • "Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh."
  • "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. 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. This book 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 Trainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour."
  • "Mark Renton's life seems to be on track: university, pretty girlfriend, even social success. But, in this prequel to Trainspotting, after the death of his younger brother, Rent falls apart and starts hanging around with his old pals, including Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, and being drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans."@en
  • "Die Vorgeschichte des Kult-Bestsellers "Trainspotting" Mark Renton sollte glücklich sein. Er ist jung, smart, hat eine hübsche Freundin und Spass am Studium. Doch im Grossbritannien der Achtziger ist kein Platz für ihn und seine Freunde. Man hat ihnen Arbeit, Bildung und Wohlstand versprochen, aber nun ist niemand da, um diese Versprechen auch einzulösen. Als Marks Familie auf tragische Weise zerbricht, gerät sein Leben ausser Kontrolle. Dies ist die Geschichte der jugendlichen Aussenseiter Mark Renton, Spud Murphy, Franco Begbie und Sick Boy. Eine Geschichte über Drogen, Armut und das Scheitern - aber auch über das Leben, die Freundschaft und vielleicht ein bisschen Liebe. Irvine Welsh, geboren 1958 in Leith bei Edinburgh, schreibt Romane und Kurzgeschichten, und gilt als einer der wichtigsten Autoren Grossbritanniens. Sein Debütroman Trainspotting machte ihn international bekannt und wurde mit Ewan McGregor in der Hauptrolle verfilmt. Welsh lebt in Chicago."

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  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Scottish fiction (English)"
  • "Black humor (Literature)"@en
  • "Black humor (Literature)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Skotské romány (anglicky)"

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  • "Skagboys Roman"
  • "Geroinshchiki (Skagboys) / Irvine Welsh"
  • "Geroinshchiki"
  • "Heráci"
  • "Skagboys"@it
  • "Skagboys"@hu
  • "Skagboys"@en
  • "Skagboys"
  • "Skagboys : Roman"
  • "Skagboys : los chicos del jaco"@es
  • "Skagboys : los chicos del jaco"

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