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.
Irvine Welsh is the author of ten previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.
Wild, brave and funny
*Sunday Times*
Welsh is brilliant at what he does... This is his most readable and
memorable novel since Trainspotting
*Independent on Sunday*
His most ambitious, but also his most complete and engaging work to
date... arguably, his best book
*Times Literary Supplement*
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
*Sunday Times*
With razor-sharp dialogue, a powerful odour of ordinary desperation
and an incisive understanding of what makes these men's friendship
tick, Welsh is at the top of his game
*The Face*
Wild, brave and funny * Sunday Times *
Welsh is brilliant at what he does... This is his most readable and
memorable novel since Trainspotting * Independent on Sunday
*
His most ambitious, but also his most complete and engaging work to
date... arguably, his best book * Times Literary Supplement *
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 * Sunday Times
*
With razor-sharp dialogue, a powerful odour of ordinary desperation
and an incisive understanding of what makes these men's friendship
tick, Welsh is at the top of his game * The Face *
Ye dinnae know abot us without you hav read a book by the name of Trainspotting, but that's brilliant. In Glue, Welsh continues his tale of the rollicking lads of Edinburgh (this time four boys growing up in the projects), and I haf to sey he gives us our due. O' course, the thing is, thir's nought all tae dae at nights roond our way; ye need a bit ay excitement. No question but that we can supply that, what with havin some fun at the expense of the wankers and tryin tae shag everything in sight when it doesnae interfere with our fitba. On a slow night we might even be inventive enough to set fire to the security dugs. O' course, it's all barry to beat the band. About two-thirds of the way through (at which point the persistent reader is awarded a Certificate in Scots Dialect), Welsh's novel settles into Standard English, and the lads' similarities to slackers from Long Island to Fresno is even more apparent. Welsh continues to demonstrate a keen ear for the Scottish dialect and a black humor appropriate to the bleak settings. Along with James Kelman, Welsh is proof that Scotland has not only its own Parliament but its own literature as well. For all larger public libraries. Bob Lunn, Kansas City P.L., MO Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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