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Glue by Irvine Welsh (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393322157

ISBN-139780393322156

eBay Product ID (ePID)1901569

Product Key Features

Book TitleGlue

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Coming of Age, Literary

Publication Year2001

GenreFiction

AuthorIrvine Welsh

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight25.5 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-030848

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsStocked 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 Welsh--now effectively the grand old man of in-your-face Scottish fiction--is a writer to be taken seriously., [Welsh's] most ambitious, but also his most complete and engaging work to date...arguably, his best book.

Dewey Decimal823.9/14

SynopsisThe 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 century from 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 snitch on anyone. Glue has the Irvine Welsh trademarks crackling dialogue, scabrous set pieces, and black, black humor but it is also a grown-up book about growing up about 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 Welsh now effectively the grand old man of in-your-face Scottish fiction is a writer to be taken seriously." Publishers Weekly starred review", 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 century--from 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 snitch--on anyone. Glue has the Irvine Welsh trademarks--crackling dialogue, scabrous set pieces, and black, black humor--but it is also a grown-up book about growing up; about the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things become unstuck.

LC Classification NumberPR6073.E47G58 2001