Glue
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (730 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393322157 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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a good read, but not his best Jonathan Gray as i am what i consider a "dedicated" fan of Irvine Welsh's writing, i was eagerly anticipating my copy of "Glue" in the mail, and while i would not go as far as say i was unsatisfied with this book, i was definitely unimpressed.set in the familiar surrounding of the Scottish "schemes," Glue follows three decades in the. Brilliant Matt Wilson Many might feel with this effort that Welsh is merely rehashing Trainspottingin fact all of the major characters from that story make a brief appearance in Glue. Nevertheless, though Welsh's familiar themes of drug abuse, sex and delinquency abound, Glue is a story about people.The book details the life of four close fr. Welsh is back on top When I first read Trainspotting a few years back, I was hooked on the harsh style that Irvine Welsh brought to his stories. Although a bit hard to get accustomed to, the novel immediately shot to the top of my favorites and I was recommending it to everyone. I eagerly snatched up anything the man published and although
It is the pervasive despair of these crumbling projects that defines the lives of the protagonists: budding DJ Carl Ewart, boxer Billy Birrell, work-shy, sex-mad Terry Lawson, and Andrew Galloway, a drug addict who has tested HIV-positive. The novel follows the boys through their early forays into sex, drink, drugs, and football violence. With a title like Glue, it would seem reasonable to assume that Irvine Welsh's fifth book is a meditation on the pitfalls of solvent abuse. --Jerry Brotton. In fact the word refers to the bonds that unite four boys, all of whom have grown up in "the scheme"--i.e., Edinburgh's slum-clearance flats, whose optimistic construction in the 1970s give way to the poverty, unemployment, and crime of the succeeding decades. Recounted in
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. Glue has the Irvine Welsh trademarkscrackling dialogue, scabrous set pieces, and black, black humorbut it is also a grown-up book about growing upabout the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things become unstuck. Their mutual loyalty is fused in street morality: Back up your mates, don't hit women, and, most important, never snitchon anyone. 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. "Stocked with his usual quirky, sympathetic characters, this rollicking new tale sparkles with the writer's trademark satiric wit. Its