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Skagboys
Sign in to saveSkagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel Trainspotting, and its 2002 sequel Porno. It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction.
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Vinony files it under 2012 British novels, Jonathan Cape books and Novels by Irvine Welsh.
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- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- First published
- 2012
- Editions
- 13
- Subjects
- Drug addicts, Young men, Fiction, Fiction, general, Edinburgh (scotland), fiction, Roman, Englisch, Social conditions
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- Country of origin
- Scotland
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Followed by
- Trainspotting
- Narrative location
- Edinburgh
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- form of creative work
- novel
- publication date
- 2012-09-17
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- Skagboys
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Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel Trainspotting, and its 2002 sequel Porno. It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction.
==Background== When Welsh described the novel he said: "I think I'm going to call it Skag Boys: "skag" is my favourite word for heroin. It's set before their fall into heroin and investigates how the main characters became junkies, the family dynamics, the anxieties of young men. A lot of the fringe characters become more prominent".
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