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See Also:
- Conrad, Michael
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Walcott, Derek
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
- Newman, John
- Spender, Stephen
- Churchill, Caryl
- Hopkins, Gerard Manley
- Rossetti, Christina
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James Kelman
James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946. won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which he won in 1994 for , offers us a harrowing glimpse into a realm where power is unchecked and liberties are few or ... [... 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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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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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 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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Where I Was
Author: James Kelman Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780141023045 Format: Import ISBN: 014102304X Number Of Pages: 64 Publication Date: 2005 [... more]
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And the Judges Said...
Author: James Kelman Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 824.914 EAN: 9780099421849 Edition: New Ed Format: Import ISBN: 0099421844 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2003-04-03 [... 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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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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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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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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Kieron Smith, boy
Author: James Kelman Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780151013487 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0151013489 Number Of Pages: 432 Publication Date: 2008-11-10 [... more]
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