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Keynote/Publisher's Comments: 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.Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences…
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Classical in form, relentless, character-led and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Irvine Welsh
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 469
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Anagrama, Contemporary French Fiction
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- German, Spanish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780099436928
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