The Real Gorbals Story
True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets
$39.67
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2007
Summary
A real-life account of growing up in the 1960s Gorbals by one of its own.
Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow’s most deprived district. He lived in the same street as its fictional ‘razor king’, Johnnie Stark, and subsequently realised that a lot of the old characters represented in the book were still around as late as the 1960s. Men still wore bun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845962074 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845962079 |
| Author: | Colin MacFarlane |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 153mm x 19mm |
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A fascinating portrait of the area, full of detail and colour and memories of characters now long gone
A fascinating portrait of the area, full of detail and colour and memories of characters now long gone * The Herald *
About The Author
Colin MacFarlane
Colin MacFarlane is a journalist and has written for a number of national newspapers, including Scotland on Sunday, the Sunday Times, the Scottish Sun and the Daily Record. He lives in Pontypridd, Wales.
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