FREE NO MEAN CITY PDF Alexander McArthur,H.Kingsley Long | 320 pages | 22 Jun 1984 | Transworld Publishers Ltd | 9780552075831 | English | London, United Kingdom No Mean City by A. McArthur No Mean City is the tenth studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazarethreleased in The album title comes from the novel No Mean City and features artwork illustrated by Rodney Matthews. With this record the band's sound was heavier, No Mean City the addition of guitarist Zal Cleminson of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Earlier remasters included the song Greens as a bonus track. This is not available on the 30th Anniversary remaster of No Mean Citybut is instead found on the same such remaster of Expect No Mercy. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional No Mean City for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. 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Kingsley Long. No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published init is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of Glasgow's pre-war slum underworld, the Gorbals. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to No Mean City a story that is fascinating, authentic and con No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. The savage, near-truth descriptions, the raw character portrayals, bring to life a story that is fascinating, authentic and convincing. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published September 29th by Corgi first published More Details Original Title. Johnnie Stark. Glasgow, Scotland Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about No Mean Cityplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of No Mean City. Nov 08, John rated it it was amazing. My mother and father emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland after the end of WWII, and when I was a child in the s, I recall going back to the "old country" every year or so to visit relatives. Through my preadolescent American eyes, No Mean City looked like something out of No Mean City era. Coal was still being used for household heating, milk was still delivered in glass bottles, everybody smoked either pipes or cigarettes, and dirty-faced little boys ran around the streets selling papers. My grandfather My mother and father emigrated from Glasgow, Scotland after the end of WWII, and when I was a child in the s, I recall going back to the "old country" every year or so to visit relatives. My grandfather, a veteran of WWI whose face bore disfiguring scars from a gas attack, lived in the Posilpark neighborhood. I recall feeling as though the area was quite safe and generally friendly. On our visits, my grandfather would take me on long walks all around Glasgow that would go on for hours and hours. I would complain, like the lazy, chubby little American boy that No Mean City was, but I nonetheless enjoyed accompanying him as he stopped and chatted with the people around the city and shared his days with me. Despite my fond memories of visiting Glasgow as a youngster, I never became truly fascinated by its history and culture No Mean City the death of my mother a few years ago. Since then I have traveled with my wife to visit surviving relatives, and I have begun to develop an interest in literature and movies set in this No Mean City. It has been a bit of a surprise to me to find that my childhood memories bear very little resemblance to the image of Glasgow as it appears in a whole group of popular books and No Mean City. Whereas the Glasgow I remember was a quaint, safe, friendly and homey place, Glasgow as it is depicted in literature and film is typically vicious, gang-infested and dangerous. The book No Mean No Mean City is a prime example. The story chronicles the lives of Johnnie and Peter Stark, two brothers following divergent life paths, who nonetheless are fated by social circumstance to meet tragic ends. Johnnie becomes "Razor King" of the slums, fighting and slashing his way to fearsome notoriety among the local gangs. Peter, on the other hand, tries hard to work his way to respectability and to enter the middle class as a manager at a local warehouse. The book's message is quite nihilistic: no matter how hard these brothers try to distinguish themselves and to rise above their circumstances, they will ultimately fail No Mean City be swallowed up by the overwhelming forces that drag all "slum dwellers" No Mean City down to their place. In many ways this book seems like a typical example of exploitative pulp fiction. It No Mean City filled with scenes of sex and violence and is written with a pronounced moralizing tone. There is very little subtlety in this novel, and the two authors make no secret of how pathetic and abject they think the main characters in the story really are. Take for instance this passage: There is a twisted sense of 'fair play' among the lowest slum dwellers. The gangster who flaunts his mistresses cannot seriously blame his wife for taking a lover. He may cling to his rights; he may expect 'service'; but he cannot and does not expect fidelity. They have become so cynical that No Mean City don't even experience feelings of jealously when their husbands or wives are unfaithful. This is all No Mean City part of life in the Gorbals slums. Even those characters like Peter who attempt to achieve respectability through hard work ultimately end up succumbing to their socialization, resorting to violence and drunkenness when things don't go their way. Everyone in this book is doomed either to be destroyed by others or to self-destruction. Having made this observation, it is however true that No Mean City No Mean City have flashes of authentic psychological and existential insight. These insights, I think, transform the book into something more than mere exploitation. Psychologically, No Mean City authors have successfully given No Mean City to certain fears and struggles that all human beings encounter, whether slum dwellers or not. In No Mean City, the issue of how a person cobbles together a sense of self-respect and establishes No Mean City social identity is given a patient and extended treatment in this novel. We are granted honest access to the inner thoughts No Mean City both Johnnie and Peter as they make the decisions that No Mean City up molding who they become over the course No Mean City the story. These decisions don't come easy, and in them I think any reader will be reminded of turning points in his or her own life. There is something very truthful when, for instance, Johnnie considers the consequences of ignoring his ex-girlfriend's attempt to publicly humiliate him Chpt. The internal dialogues presented in these and other sections of the work feel very real and No Mean City, and at such points the characters appear complicated, vulnerable and authentic. No Mean City an existential level, No Mean City is also a parable that illustrates the concept of "being-toward-death. But, sooner or later, it becomes visible. It is as if he is a concrete exemplar of the more general truth that nothing human lasts. We are all finite, thrown into the world to suffer, struggle, decay and die. As the story progresses, Johnnie becomes more and more aware No Mean City his scarred and battered appearance is a verification of the reality of his life and its fated trajectory. His body is like a canvass that visibly displays where he has been and where he is headed. Others also recognize this, and finally this is his undoing when he is overwhelmed and No Mean City by a gang of younger toughs. Those who are young and strong will soon become old and weak, and the cycle will continue. With a laugh, she told me that she herself danced with a few "razor kings" as a teenager in prewar Glasgow. This is not the Glasgow that I experienced as a kid, but it apparently is a Glasgow that really did and still apparently does exist for some people. View 2 comments. Jan No Mean City, Claire rated it it was amazing. I first read this book as a 15 year old schoolgirl, preparing for my Highers and I was hooked instantly! It really is an all-time favourite of mines! Jun 16, JK rated it liked it.