Boyracers

Boyracers

Published

January 2010

Publishers

UK
Polygon

A fresh, savvy and honest take on being young, naive and hopeful in 1990s Falkirk, and the pains of living life at hyperspeed in a mad, pop-culture world starring: Alvin, Frannie, Dolby, Brian, Belinda (doing eighty), Tyra the Beautiful, Connor f***ing Livingstone, Stephen King, Pink Floyd, peach schnapps (and lemonade), hope, dreams, Scotland, death-defying driving, Goodfellas, Irn-Bru, tenpin bowling, FHM, love and money, American Psycho, car crashes, The Lord of the Rings, U2, infinity, Brian's nipples, noddies, text messages, barmaids, virginity, Radiohead, The X-Men, exams, Frannie's patter, the death of punk, Tom Cruise, nightclub bouncers, Falkirk High School, Clive Barker, the emptiness at the heart of it all, Spiderman, Han Solo, a desolate future in which no one loves anyone else, Hotel California, Blur, and everything under the sun is in tune, as the sun is eclipsed by the moon...