Distinguished by irony, compassion, and the author's own dry wit, these three novels paint a memorable picture of life in the streets, schools, and tenements of Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s. With a unique vision of loneliness, old age, sexual longing, hot young blood, and youth's casual cruelty, George Friel's books explore a dark comedy of tangled communication, human need, and fading community. All these elements come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion, and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed...