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Greyhound for Breakfast [Paperback]

James Kelman

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited (10 July 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846970547
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846970542
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 443,139 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Superbly crafted and a joy to read. Read it for yourself. --Bernard MacLaverty

'Cute Chick' [is] the funniest short story in the British language. --Alisdair Gray

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This is a brilliant collection of stories set in the tenements and cheap casinos of Glasgow, Manchester and London.

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great stories about hardup people 9 Feb 2001
By W. K. Miller - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This collection of stories by James Kelman is one of my favorites. His subjects are everyday people: menial laborers, folks on the dole, people with relationships good and bad, friends faithful and not-so-faithful.

His language is sometimes harsh, but it never seems false. These characters seem to be real as if they could step right off the page into your hands.

Sometimes the scottish dialect is difficult for me to comprehend, but that is more than offset by the realism (equally as realistic, I think, as good hardboiled crime fiction, though that seems like an odd comparison, to me) and by the humour of the stories.

These stories are hilarious. Often the figures are lonely, pathetic, or sorrowful, failures in the eyes of many, but Kelman never denigrates or looks down upon his characters. He renders them with the greatest humanity and conveys them to the reader with much respect.

Kelman's stories always make me laugh, and make me feel, and this collection surely has done both, a couple of times over.


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