Buy this book on-line BLEASDALE, ALAN: : SCULLYLONDON.HUTCHINSON,1975. ISBN 0091219000.
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Bleasdale's debut book,based on stories originally written to entertain his pupils in the secondary modern school where he taught for four years,later to be broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside and then the basis for later stage and television plays,and a seven-part television series.
'I wrote SCULLY on the bus shelter as we walked back past the prefabs.I put SCULLY where I can.It's everywhere on our estate. It's me name,see? Coppers see us writing on the walls sometimes.And usually they don't bother.They're just like us,you know - they don't care neither.Most times they just shout at us,or get in their car and pretnd to phone for reinforcements or the Marines or something.'
Scully lives down the 'pool.At fifteen he's on probation and already on the rob. He supports Kevin Keegan and beats up the losers who back Everton of a Saturday night.At the secondary school he thinks no-one bother much.Scully knows what he wants,and suspects what he's going to get.
This novel shows just what it's like to live between the back streets and the new estates in Liverpool - to grow up a boot boy,to fight authority,to kick against the pricks.And,through its free-wheeling, anarchic humour,it shows vividly why Scully is the way he is - sharp,talented, confused,spasmodically vicious; knowing all the dodges,yet unaware of what makes them necessary.
In Scully,Alan Bleasdale has created one of the most engaging yet disturbing characters in contemporary fiction.
Bleasdale's successes came as the writer of radio dramas for the BBC; several of these plays following the character of 'Scully' - a young male Liverpudlian - and were broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside in 1971.Bleasdale's plays typically represented a more realistic,contemporary depiction of life in that city than was usually seen or reported in the local or national media.The character became so successful that Bleasdale wrote a stage play,two novels and in 1978,a Play for Today ("Scully's New Year's Eve"). The same year,he wrote another single play for the BBC1 anthology series,'The Black Stuff' about a group of Liverpudlian tarmac layers.
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