Tron theatre, GlasgowThatcher stalks the stage like an untamed monster, but the rest of Barr's account of growing up gay in the 80s is sentimentalised and soppy On the page, Damian Barr's 2013 memoir is subtle and seductive. His coming-of-age tale is like a Scottish version of The End of Eddy by the French novelist Édouard Louis; two first-person accounts of growing up gay and working-class in the declining indus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AM on May 13, 2024