A real Glasgow archipelago

A Real Glasgow Archipelago is Jack Withers' lively, streetwise and passionate depiction of modern city life. The nature of his own city is his subject. His concern is with the way individual people have become like a chain of separate islands - deeply touched by, but unable to connect with the forces of politics, economics and culture.In Glasgow's and Scotland's political impasse, Withers desists from prescriptive solutions. In a work which movingly and comically explores the nature of modern life for men and women everywhere, this book challenges us to find our own sense of inner resolution.'Let Glasgow flourish, tovarish. What perish? No flourish.Huv ye ever seen an orange walk?Naw, but ah watched ma auntie Alice go bananas.Nostalgia when ye think back tae those good old days when thir wis nae supermarkets or noisy motorways. Nae muggers nor nae burglars. Nae communters nor nae computers. Only friendly slums and clanking trams, unlocked doors and caring mums. But dreaming of a coming... what? An educated and emancipated proletariat? Some dream. One that tastes now like so much sour cream. Now that we are all so literate?'