Glue

"Glue" is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming 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 - who has one less skin than everyone and seems to find catastrophe at every corner.As we follow their lives from the seventies into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone.

ISBN 0099285924   Pages 576 ISBN13 9780099285922 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 370 Publisher Vintage   Published in London Imprint Vintage   Previous ISBN 9780099436928 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 199 Publication date 04 Apr 2002   Width (mm) 131 Reissue date 24 Jul 2008   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY 823.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC21

"Welsh is brilliant in what he does... This is his most readable and memorable novel since Trainspotting." - "Independent on Sunday""Full of incident, mad, crackling dialogue, attractively appalling characters, and some of the funniest and rudest sex scenes I have read since Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint... wild, brave and funny." - "Sunday Times"

awesome book, brilliantly written - you really care about the characters. Irvine welsh - a living legend. - Lara



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