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Post #11 - Trainspotting

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Dec 17, 2023
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Trainspotting 

When Trainspotting was published in 1993, Irvine Welsh’s Edinburgh set novel about a group of friends growing up in the 1980s was arguably the logical result of the sort of auto- didacticism that had fired out of Keir Street, The Tap and Edinburgh’s other less sung institutions. The book’s fragmented vignettes about friendship, addiction a…

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