Armstrong Graeme - The Young Team - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Times top ten bestseller Granta Best of Young British Novelists Scots Book o the Year Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award ‘ 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
Title: The Young Team
Author(s): Armstrong Graeme
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529017366
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction