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""Captures both the harsh and hilarious realities of a childhood on the streets." --"Daily Record
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Further recollections of the Gorbals from the bestselling author of The Real Gorbals Story
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Colin Macfarlane is undoubtedly what is known in Glasgow as a "patter merchant". He has the knack of telling tales in such a way as to encourage the reader to nod his head knowingly while reading and thinking "that's just how I remember it". This is his third volume of reminicences of growing up in the proud but impoverished background of Glasgow's most infamous slum. Incongruously he manages almost to glamorise the violence and the poverty in such a way as not to degrade those caught up in it. The true Gorbals characters always manage to shine through. Macfarlane never lets the reader forget that the population of the Gorbals were just one generation removed from the infamous razor gangs who terrorised the city in the 1930's. Indeed the razor was still the weapon of choice for the hooligan element of the 1960's Gorbals.
The book is written as a series of vignettes, each chapter representing a single episode in the lives of Macfarlane's gang, the Gorbals Diehards of the title. They weren't out and out thugs but were not afraid to use the violence which was basically the language of the streets on which they lived. Like his other books The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets and No Mean Glasgow: Revelations of a Gorbals Guy this volume stands up as social history while never losing the idea that the reader wants to be entertained.
Only one thing stops this being a five star review - the criminal error of calling the fat policeman in "Oor Wullie" PC Bob and not PC Murdoch - no self respecting Scot would get this wrong!!
The book is written as a series of vignettes, each chapter representing a single episode in the lives of Macfarlane's gang, the Gorbals Diehards of the title. They weren't out and out thugs but were not afraid to use the violence which was basically the language of the streets on which they lived. Like his other books The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets and No Mean Glasgow: Revelations of a Gorbals Guy this volume stands up as social history while never losing the idea that the reader wants to be entertained.
Only one thing stops this being a five star review - the criminal error of calling the fat policeman in "Oor Wullie" PC Bob and not PC Murdoch - no self respecting Scot would get this wrong!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent read which I found I could not put down. Author made the Gorbals come to life
and the people, I felt as if I were living with them. Funny ,sad and felt compassion with
the families and their hardships.
Recommend the author Colin MacFarlane and have also finished reading The Real Gorbals Story
by him and have just started his No Mean Glasgow.
and the people, I felt as if I were living with them. Funny ,sad and felt compassion with
the families and their hardships.
Recommend the author Colin MacFarlane and have also finished reading The Real Gorbals Story
by him and have just started his No Mean Glasgow.
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Published 9 months ago by Clodgy Jock
A tale of Gorbals life through the eyes of a young boy...
I loved this book for the way it portrays the Gorbals in such a way that I almost felt like I was there. Read more
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