If it is your life : stories / James Kelman.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Other Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2010Description: 280 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1590516222 (pbk. : acidfree paper)
- 9781590516225 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Kelman James | Available | 33111007611458 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A collection of short stories by the Booker Prize-winning Scottish master
Giving voice to the dispossessed and crafting stories of lives held in the balance, James Kelman reaches us all. Penetrating deeply into the hearts, minds, and desperation of characters who find themselves in everyday situations--in the hospital, at a bus stop, in a living room with the endless roar of the vacuum cleaner and a distant wife--Kelman follows their streams of consciousness and brings their worries to life. With honesty and dark humor, he confronts the issues of language, class, politics, gender, and age--identity in all its forms.
"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.
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.