:Grits (novel)

{{Short description|Book by Niall Griffiths}}

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| name = Grits

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| image = File:GritsNovel.jpg

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| caption = First edition

| author = Niall Griffiths

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| cover_artist = Matt Smith/PYMCA

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| publisher = Jonathan Cape

| pub_date = Feb 2000

| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = 481

| isbn = 0-224-05996-3

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| followed_by = Sheepshagger

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Grits is the debut novel by British author Niall Griffiths, published in 2000 by Jonathan Cape. Set in and around Aberystwyth and concerning promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, and petty crimeRear cover, 2001 Vintage Books edition, {{ISBN|0-09-9285177}} it gained for its author, who lives and works in the town{{Cite web |url=http://literature.britishcouncil.org/niall-griffiths |title=Niall Griffiths {{!}} British Council Literature |access-date=28 March 2014 |archive-date=8 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308233014/http://literature.britishcouncil.org/niall-griffiths |url-status=live }} the dubious honorific "the Welsh Irvine Welsh".[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/feb/03/fiction.reviews2 Last exit to Aberystwyth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233320/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/feb/03/fiction.reviews2 |date=3 March 2016 }}, The Guardian, Saturday 3 February 2001 The novel is largely autobiographical, Griffiths moved to Aberystwyth to research a PhD in post-war British poetry but soon became, as he puts it, an "enthusiastic participator in parties"{{Cite web |url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22020 |title=Nee, Laura. "Grits". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2008 |access-date=29 March 2014 |archive-date=7 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071511/https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=22020 |url-status=live }} and dropped out of his studies.{{Cite web |url=http://www.themodernnovel.com/welsh/griffiths/author.htm |title=Retrieved 2014-03-28 |access-date=2014-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407064746/http://www.themodernnovel.com/welsh/griffiths/author.htm |archive-date=2014-04-07 |url-status=dead }}

Ianto, a character briefly appearing in Grits became the anti-hero of Griffith's second novel Sheepshagger.