The Blade Artist

Irvine Welsh

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Vintage
18 April 2017

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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 - he seems to have other ideas.

Melanie then discovers something gruesome in California which indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his psychotic present, and things start to go very bad, very quickly.

The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel – ultra-violent, yet curiously redemptive – and it marks the return of one of modern fiction’s most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

By: Irvine Welsh
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781784700553
ISBN 10: 178470055X
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 18 April 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Irvine Welsh is the author of ten previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.

Reviews for The Blade Artist

Back to his violent best... Dark, gruesome and captivating. Esquire It's a thriller in the mode of Tarantino making war films or westerns; hiding grand themes within genre. -- Alan Bett Skinny An ultra-violent odyssey through the darkest recesses of urban life. Hot Press Intense, electrifying... Welsh has delivered a tremendously entertaining book - a whodunit, a thriller, and a probing character study - that's obsessed with conflict, both physical and mental... A surprisingly poignant, evocative read - highly recommended. Mr Hyde This has the makings of 'peak Welsh': funny, filthy, literary smack. -- Sam Parker Esquire

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The Blade Artist

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