Skagboys (novel)

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Skagboys is a prequel novel to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting that chronicles the early lives and descent into heroin addiction of Mark Renton, Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson, and their friends in 1980s Scotland.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
prequel novel
author Irvine Welsh NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts drug culture
social deprivation
youth culture in Edinburgh
followsCharacter Begbie NERFINISHED
Mark Renton NERFINISHED
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson NERFINISHED
Spud NERFINISHED
genre Scottish literature
contemporary fiction
urban fiction
hasCharacter Begbie NERFINISHED
Mark Renton NERFINISHED
Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson NERFINISHED
Spud NERFINISHED
hasSequel Porno NERFINISHED
Trainspotting NERFINISHED
hasSubject addiction recovery and relapse
crime
family relationships
friendship
poverty
violence
language English
literaryMovement Dirty realism NERFINISHED
mainTheme Thatcher-era politics
heroin addiction
unemployment
working-class life
mediaType print
narrativeStyle multiple first-person narrators
originalLanguage English
partlyAutobiographical false
partOfSeries Trainspotting series NERFINISHED
prequelTo Trainspotting NERFINISHED
publicationYear 2012
publisher Jonathan Cape NERFINISHED
setInCity Edinburgh NERFINISHED
setInCountry Scotland NERFINISHED
setInPeriod 1980s
writingStyle Scots dialect
stream of consciousness

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Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson appearsIn Skagboys (novel)
Francis Begbie appearsIn Skagboys (novel)