TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kelman,James
TI  - If it is your life: stories 
SN  - 1590516222 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Other Press
KW  - Families
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Hospital patients
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Glasgow (Scotland)
KW  - Scotland
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - "Originally published in London in 2010 by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of the Penguin Group."; Tricky times ahead pal -- Our times -- talking about my wife -- On becoming a reader -- as if from nowhere -- Bangs & a full moon -- A sour mystery -- Man to man -- The gate -- Leadership -- If it is your life -- The later transgression -- Ingrained -- Death is not. -- The third man, or else the fourth -- Vacuum -- Pieces of shit do not have the power to speak -- justice for one -- I am as putty
N2  - Collects short stories that penetrate the minds of characters in such everyday situations as convalescing in a hospital, sitting at a bus stop, and being in a living room with a vacuum cleaner
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