Grits
Sept 2011 · Random House
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In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters from various parts of Britain find themselves washed up together in a small town on the west coast of Wales, fixed between mountains and sea. Here, they both explore and attempt to overcome those yearnings and addictions which have brought them to this place: promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, petty crime, the intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life lacks at the arse-end of this momentous century. A novel about the dispossessed and disenfranchised, about people with no further to fall, Grits is also resolutely about the spirit of the individual, and each character's story is told in their own rich, powerful dialect. Through their voices, the novel charts this chapter in their lives, presenting, with humour and rage and a deep underlying sadness, a picture of the diversity and waste that is life in Britain today.A work of power, passion and enormous originality, Grits describes - in language both mythic and demotic - ways of living that appear squalid but which aspire to the spiritual. As a novel that speaks for an under-class and a sub-culture, it stands comparison with Cain's Book and Trainspotting.
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22 June 2012
'Scouse Niel' as he was known was just a nobody who dropped out of collage and got rich middle class girlfriends to pay his way and sucked up to the revolting 'Arts' cliché, with his massive alcohol and amphetamines habit . I don't like falsehoods being written about me or my friends from the aspect of a mer voyeur media mercenary. The truth is very different and the distortions and falsehoods are libelous. I personally don't like being described as having a sandwich-board on me saying 'Loser' on one side and 'exploit me' on the other, and I did not find Fat George's body or get ripped off by my friends at the time, and my stammer was treated with sympathy by the community. Since then I have been active in Bosnia and Kosovo and I was not just stacking machine guns....
This book amounts to a deformation of character.
We will have our day against traitors.
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26 July 2012
Irvine Welsh comparisons are just lazy; Griffiths is the better writer by far. Grits is easily his brightest hour.
About the author
Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool in 1966 and now lives in Wales. He is the author of six novels: Grits, Sheepshagger, Kelly + Victor, Stump, Wreckage, and Runt.
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