TY  - BOOK
AU  - Welsh,Irvine
TI  - Glue
SN  - 9780099436928
U1  - 823.914 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Edinburgh
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Edinburgh (Scotland)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Black humor (Literature)
N1  - Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2001
N2  - 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.

As we follow their lives from the 70s 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.
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