Glue - by Irvine Welsh (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The new novel by the author of the cult bestseller "Trainspotting" delivers the story of four boys growing up in Edinburgh, and about the loyalties, the experiences--and the secrets--that hold them together into their 30s.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, <em>Glue</em> 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.</p><p> <em>Glue</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Welsh's] most ambitious, but also his most complete and engaging work to date...arguably, his best book.-- "Times Literary Supplement"<br><br>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)"<br>
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