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Trainspotting Séries

Cette série plonge dans la réalité brute de la vie en marge de la société en Écosse. Elle suit le destin d'un groupe de jeunes aux prises avec la drogue, le chômage et le désespoir. Les histoires sont remplies d'humour noir, de moments choquants et de personnages inoubliables. Elle offre un regard impitoyable mais captivant sur la recherche de sens dans un monde chaotique.

The Blade Artist
Porno
На игле
Trainspotting
Trainspotting
Skagboys

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  1. Skagboys

    • 548pages
    • 20 heures de lecture

    Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young men addicted to the heroin which has flooded their disintegrating community. This is the 1980s: a time of drugs, poverty, AIDS, violence, political strife and hatred - but a lot of laughs, and maybe just a little love; a decade which changed Britain for ever. The prequel to the world-renowned Trainspotting, this is an exhilarating and moving book, full of the scabrous humour, salty vernacular and appalling behaviour that has made Irvine Welsh a household name.

    Skagboys1
    4,1

  2. Trainspotting

    • 437pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    Dans l’Édimbourg des années 1980, Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud et Tommy essayent de se serrer les coudes. Unis par leur amitié fragile et leur addiction à l’héroïne, ils tentent d’échapper à l’ennui oppressant et à la brutalité de leur quotidien dans la cité : ils volent, arnaquent et prennent de la drogue. Pourtant, au cœur du désespoir, surnage une envie de vivre plus forte que tout le reste.

    Trainspotting2
    4,2

  3. Trainspotting

    • 121pages
    • 5 heures de lecture

    Set in the underbelly of Edinburgh, Trainspotting is a story inhabited by a galaxy of immensely colorful characters -- liars, thieves, junkies -- people whose habits, emotions, and stories will leave an indelible imprint on the reader's mind.

    Trainspotting2
    4,4

  4. На игле

    Это - книга, по которой был снят культовейший фильм девяностых - фильм, заложивший основу целого модного течения - т.н. "героинового шика", правившего несколько лет назад и подиумами, и экранами, и студиями звукозаписи. Это - Евангелие от героина. Это - летопись бытия тех, кто не пожелал ни "выбирать пепси", ни "выбирать жизнь". Это - книга, которая поистине произвела эффект разорвавшейся бомбы и - самим фактом своего существования - доказала, что "литература шока" существует и теперь. Это - роман "На игле". Самая яркая, самая яростная, самая спорная и самая откровенная книга "безнадежных девяностых". Это - роман "На игле". Исповедь поколения, на собственной шкуре познавшего страшную справедливость девиза "НЕТ БУДУЩЕГО"...

    На игле2
    4,0

  5. Porno

    Retour à la case départ. Après des années de galère, Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy et Spud se retrouvent dans le huis clos froid et pluvieux d'Édimbourg. Le crack, la misère et les coups foireux sont au rendez-vous, mais la rage de vivre demeure. Avec Nikki, une étudiante invraisemblablement belle et hantée par l'idée de vieillir, ils décident de s'en sortir en produisant... le porno du siècle !

    Porno3
    3,8

  6. The Blade Artist

    Jim Francis has the perfect life. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives peacefully with his wife and two young daughters in a wealthy beach town in sun-drenched California. Some say he's a fake, others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a dark, dark past. And when he crosses the Atlantic to Scotland for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. When his wife discovers something gruesome in California, which suggests her husband's violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.

    The Blade Artist4
    3,8

  7. Dead men's trousers

    • 336pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn't seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers? Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.

    Dead men's trousers5
    4,0