The blade artist
Welsh, Irvine2016
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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. 'The Blade Artist' marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from 'Trainspotting'.
Main title:
The blade artist / Irvine Welsh.
Author:
Welsh, Irvine, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2016.
Collation:
x, 272 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780224102155 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GF
LC class:
PR6073.E47
Local class:
FTFFICAF
Language:
English
BRN:
1371664