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Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting , this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong. Marked by Irvine Welsh’s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew... read more

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Even the plank-stiffness of this old, unyielding settee can't arrest my body's slink into deliverance.

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  1. Irvine Welsh (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: April 19, 2012
ISBN: 0224087908
Page Count: 560

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Reading Level: Adults

This is an adults book due to the central themes of heroin addiction and the graphic depictions of drug use, sex and violence.

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