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Language: English
Published by Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom, 2016
Series: Book 4 of 6 - Mark Renton series
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SIGNED - Near Fine1st Edition hardcover (full numberline from 1) in Fine dustjacket. Spine slightly cocked, else Fine. Signed by author on title-page. Unclipped dustjacket. 'Signed by the author' label on front panel. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 6.3 X 1.1 X 9.4 inches; 288 pages; Signed by Author.
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- Title
- THE BLADE ARTIST
- Author
- Welsh, Irvine
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Dust Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 022410215X
- ISBN 13
- 9780224102155
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
- Series
- Book 4 of 6: Mark Renton series
The most terrifying character in Trainspotting returns -- with his own novel.
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life -- and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he's a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.
But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies -- and, most alarmingly, his former self -- Francis seems to have other ideas.
When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband's violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.
The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel -- ultra violent but curiously redemptive -- and it marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life -- and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he's a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.
But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies -- and, most alarmingly, his former self -- Francis seems to have other ideas.
When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband's violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.
The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel -- ultra violent but curiously redemptive -- and it marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.
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About the Author
IRVINE WELSH is the author of nine previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.
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