"Growing Up in the Gorbals" describes Ralph Glasser's impoverished childhood and adolescence in Glasgow's slum tenements. "Gorbals Boy at Oxford" takes him, with a scholarship, to Oxford; into the army; and back to wartime Oxford. With "Gorbals Voices", "Siren Songs", Ralph Glasser concluded his brilliant autobiographical sequence: venturing in to the perplexing, wayward world of postwar London.
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"'... a classic... he caught both the people and the place... and there are passages which stand comparison with Zola and Gorky. The Observer"
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By A. Browne
Format:Paperback
I read this book because I knew the area as a child in the 60s. I found the jewish eastern european experience to be that of a different community, that had seemed to have moved on from the area . I suppose they had moved to better areas in socio economic terms. I found parts of the book to be very interesting and quite vivid. At other points the author gets almost philisophical and I got fed up, the book seemed to be drowning under it's verbiage. Another reviewer draws parallels with Jeff Torrington's "swing hammmer swing" I dont see the connection other than cities. The latter book is far superior in my opinion. This book seems to me to be a product of it's time, reading it as memoir of another time and place , it seems sadly dated.
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By mac
Format:Paperback
if you like reading about the old Gorbals this is fine but also try colin macfarlane's The Real Gorbals Story who brings the 1960s Gorbals alive.
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By F. Craig
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As someone who grew up in the Gorbals about the same time as the author I think he grew up in a paralell universe. He led an easy life compared to my own experience.Lucky boy.
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