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Blade Artist
Blade Artist | Irvine Welsh
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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."
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TheNeverendingTBR
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‘You can take the boy out of Scotland, but can you take Scotland out of the boy?‘ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I liked this book, very humourous yet also grim and disturbing in places; Irvine Welsh is a brilliant author.

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EvieBee He‘s that kind of guy lol! 3y
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WellReadCatLady
The Blade Artist | Irvine Welsh
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TheNeverendingTBR Just started this and I'm loving it! 3y
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Crash
The Blade Artist | Irvine Welsh
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I'm weak, so so very weak. I had to go back and get two more before we leave today. Glad that there are only three of these stores in England or else I'd be broke!

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