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The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets | 
 enlarge | Author: Colin Macfarlane
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 5379
Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1845962079
Dewey Decimal Number: 941.440856092
EAN: 9781845962074
ASIN: 1845962079
Publication Date: September 6, 2007
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It's Real Alright June 21, 2008
Tomvox (Llanelli, Wales)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Colin has captured the genuine feel of what may have been a physically run-down area but what the people turned into a tightly-knit community. To anyone growing up in 1950's or early 1960's Glasgow the Gorbals was an area to be avoided. These infamous slums however had a heart - the people of The Gorbals. Colin gives voice to how people had a strong community spirit that survived the 1960's redevelopment of the area and why even today people will be proud to say "Ah'm fae the Gorbals". I understand he is producing a follow-up to come out in late 2008 recounting his own change from a Gorbals Boy to a cosmopolitan man. I look forward to reading it knowing that you cannot take the Gorbals out of the boy (and I'm sure he wouldn't want it any other way).
A lovely read about the old Gorbals December 18, 2007
desperate dan (hoganfield loch)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Colin Macfarlane's life story The Real Gorbals Story is a welcome addition to all that has been written about the place before. Unlike No Mean City this book is full of humour and wit that captures the optimism of the Gorbals people. I read it on the beach abroad but even reading it there I could feel the atmosphere of the place overcoming me. It's a must buy for all those who have an interest in the neighbourhood and all its good, bad and ugly characters.
MOVIE TO BE MADE ABOUT THE BOOK December 11, 2007
TAM (TAM)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Scots Star Lines Up Gorbals: The Movie
2007-10-07
By NORMAN SILVESTER
ATONEMENT star James McAvoy is being lined up to play a young man growing up in one of Scotland's most notorious slums.
Movie bosses have approached bestselling author Colin MacFarlane about his book, The Real Gorbals Story.
And they want McAvoy, who recently starred in the Idi Amin drama The Last King of Scotland, to play MacFarlane, whose book is based on his life in the Glasgow slum in the 50s and 60s.
MacFarlane, a former journalist who has also written a successful biography of Tom Jones, says he was contacted by Columbia Tri-Star last week.
He said: "McAvoy is one of the biggest things in Hollywood and they are looking for a new vehicle for him. There was an article about my book in the Hollywood Reporter and they are talking about using McAvoy as the star reflecting on his life in a seriesof flashbacks.
"They want me to go over and discuss a screenplay based on the book. They are also talking about getting Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle on board.
"Their idea is that it would be a movie similar in style and budget to Trainspotting or Neighbourhood Saints."
McAvoy, 28, of Drumchapel, Glasgow is being tipped for an Oscar nomination for World War II drama Atonement.
The BAFTA-winning actor, who got his break in TV's Shameless, is shooting Wanted with Angelina Jolie.
He has also been tipped to play the part of engineer Scottie in a new Star Trek movie.
MacFarlane, 52, now works as a property developer in Pontypridd in Wales.
He was born in Crown Street, the same road that was home to the fictional Johnny Stark in the classic book No Mean City.
The Real Gorbals Story details the poverty, violence and humour of life in the community.
2007 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK)
YOU WOULD BE A MUG NOT TO BUY THIS! January 4, 2008
real gorbals guy (new york)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Real Gorbals Story is the best book ever written about the place. Unlike all the other Gorbals tomes Macfarlane captures the humour and all the characters perfectly. This really would make a great movie as it is full of little unexpected endings and humorous events that continually takes the reader by surprise.
Magnificent amusing stupendous book January 8, 2008
johnnyboy (London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Real Gorbals Story is quite simply a magnificently funny. moving, sometimes brutally candid account of being brought up in the old Gorbals of the 1960s. It's a book that will uplift your mood and make you think about how people had to cope with those times on the meanest of Glasgow streets. Macfarlane has done himself and the Gorbals people proud. I defy anyone from the old Gorbals to write a better book.
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