- Title:
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The Blade Artist
- Written by:
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Irvine Welsh
- Read by:
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Tam Dean Burn
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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8 hours 8 minutes
- Published:
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May 01 2016
- Available Date:
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May 01 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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9781489342034
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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'Irvine Welsh writes with skill, wit, and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing in decades.' (Nick Hornby)
The Sunday Times
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.
'Irvine Welsh may become one of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit, and force, and in a voice which those alienated by much current fiction clearly want to hear.'
The Times Literary Supplement