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Elegy for Edinburgh
Gardiner, Linda | August 20, 2001 issue

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This article appraises the book "Glue," by Irvine Welsh. Though no doubt Irvine Welsh would sneer at the very idea, on the evidence of Glue he is working-class Scotland's greatest living ethnographer. As he follows the fortunes and misfortunes of four characters over thirty years, he does for the inhabitants of Edinburgh's housing schemes what Damon Runyon did for the Prohibition-era criminal classes of New York--he recreates a closed society that functions according to its own rules, oblivious and largely impervious to those of the law-biding, job-holding, standard-English- speaking, education-valuing middle classes.

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GLUE (Book); WELSH, Irvine; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE class; HOUSING; EDUCATION
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