The Young Team
(Sprache: Englisch)
Inspired by real events, this is a story about gangs, growing up in Scotland and the struggles young people face in choosing a future in Britain today.
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Inspired by real events, this is a story about gangs, growing up in Scotland and the struggles young people face in choosing a future in Britain today.
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The Times top ten bestsellerScots Book o the Year 2021
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award 2021
'Trainspotting for a new generation' - Independent
'An instant Scottish classic' - The Skinny
2005. Glasgow is named Europe's Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of adjacent Lanarkshire, Scotland's former industrial heartland, wee boys become postcode warriors.
2004. Azzy Williams joins the Young Team [YTP]. A brutal gang conflict with their deadly rivals, the Young Toi [YTB] begins.
2012. Azzy dreams of another life. He faces his toughest fight of all - the fight for a different future.
Expect Buckfast. Expect bravado. Expect street philosophy. Expect rave culture. Expect anxiety. Expect addiction. Expect a serious facial injury every six hours. Expect murder.
Hope for a way out.
Inspired by the experiences of its author, Graeme Armstrong, The Young Team is an energetic novel, full of the loyalty, laughs, mischief, boredom, violence and threat of life on these streets. It looks beyond the tabloid stereotypes to tell a powerful story about the realities of life for young people in Britain today.
'A swaggering, incendiary debut' - Guardian
'Dialect that fizzes off the page' - Observer
'One of the most admired young voices in British fiction' - The Times
Autoren-Porträt von Graeme Armstrong
Armstrong, GraemeGraeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire's gang culture. He was inspired to study English Literature following his reading of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting at just sixteen. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he defied expectation to read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where, after graduating with honours, he returned to study a Masters' in Creative Writing.
His debut novel, The Young Team is inspired by his experiences.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Graeme Armstrong
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2021, Main Market Ed., 400 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 152901736X
- ISBN-13: 9781529017366
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A swaggering, incendiary debut . . . The non-standard English forges a dazzling poetry of its own . . . pitches Armstrong straight into the first division of Scottish writers. Jude Cook Guardian
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