Glue
Highlights

English
Language
NA
Edition
560
Pages
9780224061261
ISBN-13
0224061261
ISBN-10Jonathan Cape
Publisher
234 mm
Height
153 mm
Width
34 mm
Thickness
Paperback
BindingDescription
Glue is the story of four boys growing up in Edinburghs public housing developments, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that keep them bonded into their thirties. Four boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy pimp with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers Billy the boxer, driven, controlled, playing to his strengths Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drif Glue is the story of four boys growing up in Edinburghs public housing developments, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that keep them bonded into their thirties. Four boys become men: Juice Terry, the work-shy pimp 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 Gally, the doomed one, whose skin is thinner than everyone elses and who 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 see them trying to struggle out of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure, and their parents hopes. What binds them together is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both. Glue has all Irvine Welshs usual pace and vigour, crackling dialogue, scabrous set-pieces and black, black humour, 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.