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Original Title:	Glue
ISBN:	0099436922 (ISBN13: 9780099436928)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Terry Lawson #1
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland

Glue (Terry Lawson #1)

Irvine Welsh

Paperback | Pages: 556 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 13288 Users | 282 Reviews

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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 else 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. Despite its scale and ambition, Glue has all Irvine Welsh's 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.

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Title	:	Glue (Terry Lawson #1)
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 556 pages
Published	:	2002 by Vintage (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Drama

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Ratings: 3.79 From 13288 Users | 282 Reviews

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I could not put this book down. Even after I finished it.

for me, i found 'glue' to be an epic novel. 556 pages that i read in 48 hours. i don't remember anything about those days other than totally immersing myself in this novel. i really hadn't felt truly excited by a novel in a long time, although i'm often reading things i enjoy. it was everything about it that made me really love what i was reading. the characters start off as children, not really aware of their surroundings [like most children who are more concerned with playing with friends than

Fantastic. Great characters. Loved following these boys.

"Glue" is about four boys from working class families in Edinburgh. It follows them from being small kids to adulthood, with some stops along the way. It runs roughly parallel with Welsh's "Trainspotting" and some of the characters from "Trainspotting" make brief appearances in "Glue" as they know some of the same friends and hang out at some of the same bars.We're first introduced to the four mates in 1970 as small kids with their families. Carl "N-SIGN" Ewart and Billy "Business" Birrell's

I think this is Welsh's most soulful novel. It doesn't try to make itself as interesting as some of his other works, just letting the characters move the reader. It's a little more sprawling than I would have liked, but that's just me. The dialect can get confusing when it gets particularly thick, but that's normal and expected since I'm not used to trying to understand people from that background. Besides, it's really a necessary part of Welsh's books as I see it, and necessary for

This is definately one I have to go back and read. This exploration of four friends and the different paths they take over several decades is very enjoyable. Disturbing and vulgar, hilarious and heartbreaking, especially the character of Andrew Galloway and his tragic turn. Another good one from Edina's laureate of squalor.

"Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on." 5/5 Stars! This has become my most favourite novel to ever exist. I first read this quite some time ago, and liked it. I can say, though, upon rereading Glue that I found myself tethered far more fiercely to the lives within the pages than I was bargaining for. Glue is about four guys who are friends and grow up. It also has a lot to do with their families,