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The Blade Artist (Mark Renton #4)
By : by Irvine Welsh
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Original Title : The Blade Artist
ISBN : 022410215X (ISBN13: 9780224102155)
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Hardcover, 288 pages
Published April 7th 2016 by Jonathan Cape
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Description : 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 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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REVIEWS :Loved it. Begbie will always be the king. BEGBIE, I canny believe it's really you. All those years of peevin, scrappin, and jail time, you land it nice in California with a gorgeous wife and kids, a rehabilitative job, and a massive hoose. The boy has changed. Until, of course, his son ends up pan breed and he has to come back to Embra for the funeral. No one could write this but Welsh. Carving this new life for Franco, under the name of Jim Francis, he creates a stark contrast to the one we're used to, and takes us immediately out of A very welcome return for one of Irvine Welsh’s greatest literary creations, the psychotic Frank “Franco” Begbie.I doubt anyone would be able to second guess what’s happened to Frank since we last encountered him: Begbie, now known as Jim Francis, is a middle-aged, successful artist living the dream in California with his beautiful wife and daughters.The question at the heart of this deft, engrossing thriller is “has he really changed?” Four concurrent stories intertwine: an incident on a beach Jim Francis is an expat Scot living the American dream in California. He has a lovely family, a house a few minutes from the beach and is making a good living as an artist. His art is a bit twisted - sculptured heads of the rich and famous with their faces cut open as if in a knife attack, but these are in great demand so, hey ho, whatever goes in the land of the free.But Jim has a colourful past as a man of violence with many years in prison behind him.He gets a message from Scotland to say Of all the characters from the Trainspotting universe, Begbie may be most surprising one to suddenly be able to sustain a protagonistship in a new Irvine Welsh novel. Psycho wild card of Skag Boys, and of course Trainspotting, and the unrepentant antagonist of Porno (not to mention the different version in the film T2). He just never seemed the type to sustain a book all on his own, with no other POVs. Yet here it is, short and to the point like the eponymous art of the blade. Especially a 'The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself.'So far, Jim Francis is managing to follow his own advice rather well, bringing up his two beautiful daughters in a Californian beachside idyll. Along with his blissful marriage to Mel and a lucrative career as an artist, disfiguring the sculpted heads of the rich and famous, life's pretty good - a million miles from his old life when his enlightened parenting mantra was still many years - and prison BEST ENDING EVER That's the thing aboot bein an artist, ye get...creative.When I heard that there was to be a new Irvine Welsh and that he would be devoting the whole book to everyone's favourite amoral psychopath Begbie, I got excited and thought, “Bring it on”. But as The Blade Artist begins, we meet a new sort of character: Begbie is now a celebrated sculptor, living in California with his beautiful young wife and two blonde daughters, and not only has he given up drinking and fighting, but he's given up his As soon as I heard about The Blade Artist, and that Irvine Welsh was bringing one of his most iconic characters back, I knew I had to read it. There was no way I was going to miss out on the return of one of my favourite literary creations. The good news? Begbie has returned and he is bringing a whole world of hurt with him.As ever, Welsh’s writing offers a keen insight into the innermost workings of his protagonist. It is fascinating watching as Jim Francis devolves back into Francis Begbie. Having some substantial rail travel in hand, I have ripped through this - the latest from one of my favourite authors - in a couple of days. I wouldn't say it's one of the best and it's largely lacking in humour, even of the dark Irvine kind, but it's certainly gripping. I read a couple of reviews of this and conclude that certain public school boys don't think that working class people should be able to write books and if they do they shouldn't write them on subjects based in real working class Let's get this over with... 4/5The Blade Artist is part of a series that involves the characters from Trainspotting (Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie). It is from Begbie's perspective after he's managed to turn his life around. What I liked about this story is that Begbie was mostly relatable. He didn't expect a good life with a loving spouse and kidlets that he adored, because he wouldn't have ever thought that was an option. And then it happened and it's awesome. That part of this book is This is unexpectedly bland, and way too far from what it started as. Reformed Scottish ex-con Jim Francis (formerly Franco Begbie) is now a successful sculptor living the dream in sunny California with his former prison art therapist now trophy wife and their two children. But when a tragic event unfolds back in his hometown of Leith, Edinburgh, he feels compelled to return to his old stomping ground. There he must face the very different life he left behind. Will Jim stay restrained, off the booze and away from the violence that was the scourge of his younger Welsh has long been one of my favorite authors, and from the get-go I was excited by the prospect of a new Begbie book. Though that's what I got, it's not what I really wanted. I have no problem with the new approach Welsh took to the character, the reimagining of him as a man who has learned through years of hardship how to mitigate his vitriol and channel it into a more fulfilling outlet: art. My problem is that Welsh couldn't really commit to the new Begbie. Even though the book is really.
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