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Vintage And the Judges Said...
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Vintage The Good Times
James Kelman's first book since his 1994 Booker-winning novel, <I>How Late It Was, How Late</I>, is a collection of 20 soliloquies from his habitual protagonist; the Scottish working-class male. <I>The Good Times</I> features men drinking, men working and men simply being with other men. That is not to say women are totally absent. In fact women are often the motivating force for these stories, but they are only glimpsed through the dreams, expectations and, most of all, the anxieties of the men. She was bending down to look inside one of her bags and her head bumped the edge of the table, recounts the ham-fisted romantic narrator of Oh my darling. I moved my hand towards her but she drew me one hell of a look. It's not gony happen again, she said, that's for bloody sure, just no way. And remember this, it was you who asked me to come, it was nay me dragged ye. To anyone who has read Kelman's previous work the relentless swearing will come as no surprise, but it is the accuracy and power of his prose that really draws the reader up short with its telling incisiveness into the troubled lives of his characters. This impressive collection is a bleak, wry and occasionally humorous insight into the quiet agonies of everyday life. --<I>Nick Wroe</I>
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Vintage Translated Accounts
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Penguin Books Ltd You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free
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Penguin Books Ltd Where I Was (Pocket Penguins S.)
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AK Press Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural and Political
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Canongate Classics Selected Stories (Pocket Classics S.)
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James Kelman
author: Klaus, H.Gustav; publisher: Northcote Ho.Publrs.
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Vintage Not, Not While the Giro and Other Stories
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Vintage The Burn
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Picador A Chancer (Picador Books)
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Secker & Warburg Hardie and Baird and Other Plays
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Northcote House Publishers Ltd James Kelman (Writers & Their Work S.)
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Vintage Greyhound for Breakfast
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Vintage How Late It Was, How Late
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 filling yer head: then the other words; there's something wrong; there's something far far wrong; ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man. From the moment Sammy wakes slumped in a park corner, stiff and sore after a two-day drinking binge and wearing another man's shoes, James Kelman's Booker Prize-winning novel <I>How Late it Was, How Late</I> loosens a torrent of furious stream-of-consciousness prose that never lets up. Beaten savagely by Glasgow police, the shoplifting ex-con Sammy is hauled off to jail, where he wakes to a world gone black. For the rest of the novel he stumbles around the rainy streets of Glasgow, brandishing a sawed-off mop handle and trying in vain to make sense of the nightmare his life has become. Sammy's girlfriend disappears; the police question him for a crime they won't name; the doctor refuses to admit that he's blind; and his attempts to get disability compensation founder in Kafkaesque red tape. Gritty, profane, darkly comic and steeped in both American country music and working-class Scottish vernacular, Sammy's is a voice the reader won't soon forget. --<I>Mary Park</I>
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