The blade artist

Resource Information

The work The blade artist represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The blade artist

Statement of responsibility

Irvine Welsh

Creator

• Welsh, Irvine

Subject

• California -- Fiction
• Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction
• Revenge -- Fiction
• Artists -- Fiction
• Suspense fiction
• Violence -- Fiction
• Scotland -- Fiction

Genre

• Suspense fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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 also his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction