Glue by Irvine Welsh [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 2001 • W.W. Norton

Glue by Irvine Welsh  U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2001] W.W. NORTON & CO First issued as an XL deluxe trade paperback with front and rear panels, this book is in excellent condition.  Mild shelf wear to cover.  Reads flawlessly.  An epic novel about the bonds of friendship from the author of Trainspotting.The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. The boys become 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, exceedingly thin-skinned and vulnerable to catastrophe at every turn.We follow their lives from the seventies into the new century—from punk to techno, from speed to E—as they struggle with the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure, and their