Most Popular Books by James Kelman

Offers some of the author''s best work from three separate collections. The Bevel and The Hitchhiker tell of Chas, Sammy and the boy working in the Highlands in the summer, while Pictures and Lassies Are Trained That Way have their own take on the relationships between men and women.

All We Have is the Story collects fifty yearsof interviews, both published and unpublished, revealingJames Kelman''s thinking on a breadth of topics fromwriting and literature to class and race to sports andphilosophy.

James Kelman has made use of the short form all of his writing life, calling on the different traditions where such stories are central within the culture, beginning and ending in freedom, the freedom to create. People should know that their stories count, no matter how personal, how emotional, how eccentric, how trivial, how stupid or how self-centred they may appear. Just make them, and make them your own, in spite of hostility, of negativity, of the threat of punishment: go to it. Language is with the user and you are the user. Make these stories and make them your own.

James Kelmans großer, 1994 mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichneter Roman liegt nun erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vor. Spät war es, so spät erzählt die Geschichte eines Glasgower Kleinganoven, der erblindet und unfreiwillig in die Mühlen des Polizeiapparats gerät. Spät war es, so spät ist eine schwarze Komödie über das Leben, virtuos erzählt, schonungslos und ergreifend zugleich.

Booker Prize winner James Kelman''s new novel, Dirt Road, tells the story of a teenage boy who travels with his father from Scotland to Alabama to visit with relatives after the death of his mother. In the American South, he becomes swept up into the world of zydeco and blues. ""A powerful meditation on loss, life, death, and the bond between father and son. . . . Kelman has created a fully–realized, relatable voice that reveals a young man’s urgent need for connection in a time of grief." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) After his mother’s recent death, sixteen–year–old Murdo and his father travel from their home in rural Scotland to Alabama to be with his émigré uncle and American aunt. Stopping at a small town on their way from the airport, Murdo happens upon a family playing zydeco music and joins them, leaving with a gift of two CDs of Southern American songs. On this first visit to the States, Murdo notices racial tension, religious fundamentalism, the threat of severe weather, guns, and aggressive behavior, all unfamiliar to him. Yet his connection to the place strengthens by way of its musical culture. Murdo may be young but he is already a musician. While at their relatives’ home, the grieving father and son experience kindness and kinship but share few words of comfort with each other, Murdo losing himself in music and his reticent and protective dad in books. The aunt, “the very very best,” Murdo calls her, provides whatever solace he receives, until his father comes around in a scene of great emotional release. As James Wood has written of this brilliant writer’s previous work in The New Yorker, “The pleasure, as always in Kelman, is being allowed to inhabit mental meandering and half–finished thoughts, digressions and wayward jokes, so that we are present” with his characters. Dirt Road is a powerful story about the strength of family ties, the consolation of music, and one unforgettable journey from darkness to light.

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Helen travaille de nuit dans un casino comme croupière, et vit dans un minuscule appartement de la banlieue londonienne, avec sa petite fille de six ans et son compagnon, Mo, anglo-pakistanais, qui trouve qu''elle est tordue. Plus que tordue, dit-elle. Les pensées filent en roue libre – racisme ordinaire, sexisme à la petite semaine, résistance au quotidien –, Helen somnole, se souvient, rêve et s''obsède, comme une Molly Bloom de banlieue, en moins frivole. Vingt-quatre heures dans la vie d''une femme, entre la bouilloire qui fuit et le sommeil qui ne vient pas, l''avalanche des problèmes matériels et une vie exiguë qui paraît sans issue. Le monologue intérieur d''un personnage à la Ken Loach, dans la langue bouillonnante de James Kelman, toujours au plus près de ce qu''on n''appelle plus la classe ouvrière.

The traditional songs of Ireland have a haunting, emotionally charged atmosphere of their own, tinged as they are with a sense of heartfelt longing and loss. The three songs in this collection, Danny Boy, Roisin Dubh and Carrickfergus have been masterfully arranged by 2009 Emmy nominated British composer, Howard Goodall.

The majority of the 18 stories in A Lean Third have been substantially revised by the author, making these new versions of great interest to academics and fans alike. Of particular note is a 3000 word afterword, written especially for this edition. The author gives revealing insights into the background of many of the stories and his lifestyle at the time of writing. A fascinating and essential new edition.

Un desafecto plasma el mundo de Patrick Doyle, un profesor de secundaria de Glasgow próximo a la treintena, en cuadros que describen una semana de su vida en crisis. Pero la crisis de Patrick no es sólo la crisis de los treinta.

Robert Hines est un jeune employé de bus de Glasgow, il rêve de devenir conducteur mais aux yeux des inspecteurs de la compagnie, il est trop original, il a trop de mal à se plier aux règles, aux horaires. Confronté à un quotidien " désastreux et étrangement banal ", il n''y survit que grâce à son amour pour sa femme et son fils et une imagination magnifiquement anarchique. Dans ce roman drôle, intelligent et réellement original, James Kelman met en scène avec une verve et un humour sans complaisance le dur milieu ouvrier de Glasgow : la religion, le foot, l''alcool, les copains, la pesanteur aliénante des réunions enfumées... Il décrit une vie de travailleur, sans héroïsme, simplement humaine, en créant un personnage attachant et inoubliable.

Na zijn vrijlating uit de gevangenis wordt een Engelsman blind als gevolg van een incident met de politie, wat echter moeilijk te bewijzen is.

Appeal regarding change of use from shop to licensed betting office.