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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Gardners Books
Publication date
May 3, 2001
Pages
1
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781856865555
ISBN-10
185686555X
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$22.95
Other format details
audio
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Summary
The story of four boys growing up in Edinburgh: Juice Terry; Billy the boxer; Carl, the 'Milky Bar Kid'; and Gally. Follow their lives from the 1970s to the new century, from punk to techno, from speed to Es, see each of them as they struggle to get away from the conditioning of class and culture.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
An epic novel about the bonds of friendship from the author of Trainspotting.
The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer, driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally, exceedingly thin-skinned and vulnerable to catastrophe at every turn. We follow their lives from the seventies into the new centuryâfrom punk to techno, from speed to E. Their mutual loyalty is fused in street morality: Back up your mates, don't hit women, and, most important, never snitchâon anyone. Glue has the Irvine Welsh trademarksâcrackling dialogue, scabrous set pieces, and black, black humorâbut it is also a grown-up book about growing upâabout the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things become unstuck. "Stocked with his usual quirky, sympathetic characters, this rollicking new tale sparkles with the writer's trademark satiric wit. Its heft and narrative breadth should convince any remaining skeptics that Welshânow effectively the grand old man of in-your-face Scottish fictionâis a writer to be taken seriously."âPublishers Weekly starred reviewEditions
Hardcover
from Vintage Uk (January 1, 2004)
9780224062312 | details & prices | 480 pages | List price $123.30
Paperback
from W W Norton & Co Inc (May 1, 2001)
9780393322156 | details & prices | 469 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Follows the lives of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, bound together by loyalty and friendship as they struggle with class conditioning, peer pressure, and their parents' hopes for their future.
About: Follows the lives of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, bound together by loyalty and friendship as they struggle with class conditioning, peer pressure, and their parents' hopes for their future.
Cassette/Spoken Word
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from Gardners Books (May 3, 2001)
9781856865555 | details & prices | 1 pages | List price $22.95
About: The story of four boys growing up in Edinburgh: Juice Terry; Billy the boxer; Carl, the 'Milky Bar Kid'; and Gally.
About: The story of four boys growing up in Edinburgh: Juice Terry; Billy the boxer; Carl, the 'Milky Bar Kid'; and Gally.
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