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 ...
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.
Mark Renton has it all
he's good-looking,young,with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university.But there is no room for him in the 1980s.Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain,and the post9war 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 himselfs being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence- the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Fanco Begbie. Only Sick Boy,the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex,seems to ride the curre... (查看原文)
‘You’re the best ay them, son, the best ay them aw,’ she whispers in urgent confidence. She’s said this every time ah’ve seen her since ah wis a bairn. Used tae make us feel great, till ah found oot she said it tae aw her grandchildren, and her neighbor’s kids! Ah’m sure she means it at the time, but.
The best ay them aw. (查看原文)
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结尾sickboy和Mark一起信誓旦旦不再嗑药然后正传开篇就是戒断反应真是讽刺性拉满了…不逊色于《猜火车》的前传，对于我这种想了解角色们（主要是Mark）的过去的人来说非常得劲，看得很爽