Prequel to the bestselling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh\'s colorful miscreants first went wrong.
Gritty, moving, and exhilarating, Skagboys paints their dizzying downward spiral with scabrous humor and raw language..
Set against 1980s Thatcher-era Edinburgh--with its high unemployment, low expectations, and hard-to-come-by money and drugs?Irvine Welsh\'s colorful crew lunges from one darkly hilarious misadventure to the next.
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.
Mark Renton\'s life seems to be on track: university, pretty girlfriend, even social success.
Prequel to the bestselling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh\'s colorful miscreants first went wrong
