Rolling

by Thomas Healy

A frighteningly intimate account of long-term alcoholism and the obsessive destructive lifestyle of the alcoholic is at the centre of Thomas Healy's second novel. From a troubled adolescence among Glasgow's tenement flats in the 1950s, the young protagonist, Michael, drifts to London and Europe through a succession of jobs, embarking upon an escalating cycle of binges, drying-out sessions and bleak despair.

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 7, 1992