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| Original Title: | The Blade Artist |
| ISBN: | 022410215X (ISBN13: 9780224102155) |
| Series: | Mark Renton #4 |
Irvine Welsh
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.58 | 5656 Users | 333 Reviews
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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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| Title | : | The Blade Artist (Mark Renton #4) |
| Author | : | Irvine Welsh |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | April 7th 2016 by Jonathan Cape |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Dark. Suspense |
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Ratings: 3.58 From 5656 Users | 333 ReviewsEvaluate Regarding Books The Blade Artist (Mark Renton #4)
It was like mildly shit fan-fiction.Frank deserves better... Well there's the case of supporting character who's so interesting/popular that becomes the main character and then we find out they were not as interesting as to become the main forces of a novel /movie - think the Mignions, Hannibal Lecter, the Cleveland Show and the likes this however is not the case by all means the plot of the novel is cliché - let's suppose it's called Count Dracula's Big Vacation, all right? our count gave up drinking blood, lives as a respected
The 4th book in the 'Trainspotting' series and this was not at all what I was expecting. First of all it largely focused on only one of the gang, and that someone is virtually unrecognisable from how we has last seen him (both on paper and film) Typically violent, sweary and vulgar, just what you have come to expect from an Irvine Welsh book, oh and what an ending! Brilliant.
"The first cut is the deepest"We have met Francis Begbie before he was in Trainspotting, then again in the sequel Porno, then in the prequel Skagboys but now he has a new identity and a new name Jim Francis. He lives in california with a beautiful wife and two daughters, he adores them and would do anything to protect them; and he does.He carries two lives in him, one is normal the other one is pure violence, controlled restrained but never too far never too controlled when is safe to let go, in
The most unstable guy in the room is the most stable guy in the room.Simmer near boil .Loved it.
This is probably my least favorite novel in all of the Trainspotting books. Focusing on Frank Begbie and how he's turned his life around in the United States, it's perhaps more readable if only because Irvine Welsh writes in standard English. However, this is actually the charm about reading any of the Trainspotting books and it doesn't really feel like it belongs to the other books.But maybe that's the point. Begbie has left his past in Edinburgh behind, becoming an artist in California,
Jimmy Boyle has a lot to answer for. The gang executioner (literally), introduced to art while in prison, and on release builds a career as an arty type, marrying the American art therapist - and giving rise to thousands of words about the nature of criminals, potential for reform and the importance of art and reaching out (left) and scepticism that you can't reform the fundamentally broken (right). Begbie goes Boyle in the fourth Trainspotting book, and it's entirely focused on him. We meet Jim
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