A Decent Ride : A Novel

• Autore: Welsh Irvine
• Pubblicazione: Westminster : , : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 pages)
• Disciplina: 823/.914
• Soggetto non controllato: English crime fiction
• Classificazione: FIC050000FIC052000
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Other Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Part One: Pre-Bawbag Innocence -- Chapter 1: Taxi Days -- Chapter 2: Guaranteed -- Chapter 3: Office Work -- Chapter 4: Sweet Liberty -- Chapter 5: Jonty and Stormy Weather -- Part Two: Hurricane Bawbag -- Chapter 6: Speed Dating -- Chapter 7: Jinty Nagged -- Chapter 8: Running Around -- Chapter 9: Refuge in The Pub With No Name -- Chapter 10: The Bag of the Baw -- Chapter 11: In God We Trust-Part 1 -- Chapter 12: Bawbag's Last Stand -- Part Three: Post-Bawbag Panic -- Chapter 13: Jonts in the Hood -- Chapter 14: The Knight in Shining Armour -- Chapter 15: Jonts in McDonald's -- Chapter 16: Hotels and Saunas -- Chapter 17: Unfazed by the Phenomenon -- Chapter 18: The Lessons of Bawbag -- Chapter 19: Sex Addicts' Meeting -- Chapter 20: What's Cookin in the Cuik? -- Chapter 21: Wee Guillaume and the Ginger Bastard -- Chapter 22: A Shopping List Confession -- Chapter 23: White Funny Stuff -- Chapter 24: Instruments of the Devil -- Chapter 25: Tynecastle Hospitality -- Chapter 26: The Heart of the Matter -- Chapter 27: In God We Trust-Part 2 -- Chapter 28: Cold Comforts -- Part Four: Post-Bawbag Reconstruction -- Chapter 29: Sauna Sojourn -- Chapter 30: In God We Trust-Part 3 -- Chapter 31: Going McNuggets -- Chapter 32: Through Streets Broad and Narrow -- Chapter 33: Feverish -- Chapter 34: Auld Faithful 1 -- Chapter 35: Scotland's Smokers on the Offensive -- Chapter 36: Transport Economics -- Chapter 37: Auld Faithful 2 -- Chapter 38: Another Blow for Scotland's Smokers -- Chapter 39: The Boy in the Canary-Yellay Fleece -- Chapter 40: Escape to Penicuik -- Part Five: Post-Bawbag Society -- Chapter 41: The Revenge of Scotland's Smokers -- Chapter 42: Auld Faithful 3 -- Chapter 43: Avoiding Stress -- Chapter 44: Jinty's Diary Excerpt 1. ; Chapter 45: Post Perishables -- Chapter 46: The Snarling Fuds of May -- Chapter 47: Jinty's Diary Excerpt 2 -- Chapter 48: Powderhall -- Chapter 49: In God We Trust-Part 4 -- Chapter 50: The Bridge Tournament -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters 'Juice' Terry Lawson that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth and masterful in its comedic timing. A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters front and center: the rampaging force of nature that is 'Juice' Terry Lawson, first seen in Glue. Juice is a man who contains multitudes: he's a top shagger, drug-dealing, gonzo pornstar and taxi driver. As we ride along in Juice's cab through the depraved streets of Edinburgh, Juice encounters a series of charmingly filthy characters, each of whom present their own, uh, unique challenges. Has he finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'? Can he discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Juice be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without. a decent ride? (The meaning of the title is starting to sink in now, huh?). So buckle your seatbelts and prepare for one unforgettable ride"--
• Titolo autorizzato: A Decent Ride
• ISBN: 0-385-54090-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910160353603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II