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Original Title:	The Blade Artist
ISBN:	022410215X (ISBN13: 9780224102155)
Series:	Mark Renton #4

The Blade Artist (Mark Renton #4) Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

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Title	:	The Blade Artist (Mark Renton #4)
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	April 7th 2016 by Jonathan Cape
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Dark. Suspense

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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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I've waited a long time for this book. Fans of Welsh, I expect, feel the same. A book based all around the life of Francis Begbie, one of Welshs most famous characters. What could possible go wrong? Well a few things actually.Let's be honest we all wanted a tale of the Begbie we all know and love. The ultra violent, psycopath whom his friends and enemies both fear. The guy who if you saw in a bar you would walk out. The guy who, if you said one wrong word too, wouldn't think twice about glassing

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

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 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

Ye get what ye get, not what ye deserveI cant think of another literary character who embodies both horror and hilarity to the same extent as Frank Begbie. I inhaled this novel in two days, just couldnt put it down. Except for the excessively vicious Tyrone scene at the end, I thought it was perfect. The new world immigrant forced to return to his old world stomping ground, like a wild beast returned to its natural habitat. Throw the odd outbreak of hallmark Franco violence (did someone say that

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

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