Skagboys (Mark Renton #1) (Record no. 59061)
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| fixed length control field | 01896nam a2200229 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 59061 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260219124020.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780224087919 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | AIS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.914 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Irvine Welsh |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Skagboys (Mark Renton #1) |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Jonathan Cape |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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. |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Fiction |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Crime |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Mystery |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Thriller |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Dark |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="<WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/Skagboys by Irvine Welsh.pdf"><WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/Skagboys by Irvine Welsh.pdf</a> |
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