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The original gunslinger

Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, 23 January 2005

The Seventies: a decade to forget or to conjure with? Dull, grey ligament connecting the bones of the Sixties to the meat of the Eighties, or a lost paradise? Charles Shaar Murray knows. He was a front-line cultural warrior at the time — so front-line that he turned up in The Rotters' Club, the novel that nailed the decade… and which is now a TV drama

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