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Edinburgh, 1970s. Four boys are born and raised on the edge of town. in the blocks of working-class apartment buildings that replaced the slums. Their moral code is forged on the street: you support your own people, you don't hit women and – above all – you never nail anyone.
Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, follows their lives as the four boys grow into men. It examines the bonds of faith, experiences and secrets that follow them until they reach their forties. And as we follow the path from the 70s to the new century – from punk to child and from speed to ecstasy – we see them struggle to escape from their social origins. The pressure of their peers and the expectations of their parents, for their sons to do better than them.
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What is it that binds together four such different people, the lazy snake charmer and Terry the womanizer. Billy. The boxer who only goes as far as he can. Karl the bartender who only follows his own music. And the loser Andrew who meets disaster around every corner? It is their special friendship, steeled in the working-class apartment buildings and at school, and their attempt to escape from these two…
Filled with his usual quirky but likeable characters, this boisterous new tale sparkles with the author's trademark satirical wit.
Publishers Weekly
Irvine Welsh is one of the most astute experts on depravity, a scientist of impurity.
New York Times
[The Glue] is carefully constructed. It uses multiple perspectives, and artfully plays with a kind of narrative flashback.
The Guardian
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Irvine Welsh was born in 1958 in Leith, a working-class district of Edinburgh where he spent the first years of his life. His first book, Trainspotting, published in 1993, was adapted to film and theater with great artistic and commercial success. His collection of short stories "The acid house", and the novels "Marabou stork nightmares" and "Ecstasy", were also adapted for theater and cinema.
He is also involved in writing plays and film scripts as well as journalism, having a permanent column in the "Daily Telegraph" newspaper and writing articles for "Loaded" magazine and "The Guardian" newspaper. He lives in Dublin.
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