Glue

"GLUE is too perceptive to be a 'laddish' book, and it would be a mistake to see it as typical of that genre, with its cheeky, smug and, at bottom, despicable boy-men. Nevertheless, it is a book about male inadequacy, in which we see that the essential characteristic of the boy-man is fear....The strength of GLUE lies in its revelation of the pathos inherent in the immaturity of that male subspecies...; at the same time, Welsh's relinquishment of his earlier panache, in favour of a more questioning narrative, and an occasionally flatter style, is a mark of his own increased maturity as a writer. Ending, as it does, in forgiveness, GLUE is, arguably, his best book, a seasoned examination of the Scottish male."Welsh, Irvine is the author of 'Glue' with ISBN 9780393322156 and ISBN 0393322157.