“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..".
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