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How Late It Was, How Late
Amazon.com Review: "Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words [... more]
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The Good Times
Well-Written Yet Uncompelling: The twenty stories here offer little variation from those in Busted Scotch. Written in the first-person, these are again mostly from a lower-class male perspective. They often feel fragmentary in nature, rarely offering up [... more]
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Seven Stories (AK Press Audio)
The quiet voice of a master: I was first introduced to Kelman by an English teacher in secondary school. He exposed my class to modern Scottish writing, ALasdair Gray, Tom Leonard, and James Kelman. Indeed, Kelman was invited to my school to give a [... more]
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The Close Season
Author: James Kelman Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 770 EAN: 9781899235049 ISBN: 1899235043 Number Of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2002-09-01 [... more]
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You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free
"Everybody vanishes, that is what life is, unresolved.": Jeremiah Brown, another of Booker Prize-winner James Kelman's down-and-out protagonists, thinks of himself as a writer and keeps a notebook into which he jots down his observations about [... more]
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The Busconductor Hines
gritty Rob Hines: Hines lives in a crappy flat with no bathrub. He conducts a city bus (he's not passed the driving test, indeed he doesn't even have a driver's license). His job is mind-numbingly boring, his supervisors are daft, and his life is just [... more]
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A Disaffection
Reads like you're living in somebody's head: I guess there's no easy way into a James Kelman novel. He is not the most accessible of writers to non-native readers because he uses the language of the vernacular to capture the essence of daily thought and [... more]
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Greyhound for Breakfast
great stories about hardup people: This collection of stories by James Kelman is one of my favorites. His subjects are everyday people: menial laborers, folks on the dole, people with relationships good and bad, friends faithful and not-so-faithful. His [... more]
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How Late It Was, How Late
Amazon.com Review: "Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words [... more]
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How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: "Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words [... more]
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Translated Accounts : A Novel
Not Since Beckett Has There Been Such A Book: There's so many books out there, and so many good ones (thankfully), so it's hard to explain exactly why, after reading this one, I felt I'd read something truly important. Language forms the deep centre of [... more]
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How Late It Was, How Late
Author: James Kelman Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780433393979 ISBN: 0433393971 Number Of Pages: 373 Publication Date: 1995 [... more]
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