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James Kelman
Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.
From his first publication (a short…
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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…
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The Good Times was James Kelman’s first work after winning the Booker Prize for his novel How late it was, how late. Tender and lyrical, this is a dazzling collection…
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Incendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemylay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants,asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed of…
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE ‘A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book’ Guardian Sammy’s had a bad week. Most of it’s just a blank space in his mind, and…
Simon Kovesi
Provides the study of the novels of James Kelman, Scotland’s influential contemporary prose artist and 1994 Booker Prize winner. This title offers readings of Kelman’s style, characterisation and linguistic innovations…
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H. Gustav Klaus
This introduction to the whole range of James Kelman’s works, from the early short stories through the plays and essays to the Booker Prize winning novel How Late it Was…
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One of the most powerful and provocative writers to have emerged in Britain in recent years, Kelman has engendered a good deal of controversy over his widely reported, but often…
Lively and specially commissioned chapters cover the entire range of Kelman’s writing - including novels, short stories, essays, polemics and plays - and the vigorous debates it has provoked.
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Aaron Kelly
This study argues that the works of the Scottish novelist James Kelman should not be seen as a resigned capitulation to capitalism or an acceptance of the fracture of a…
Christine Amanda Muller
This book focuses on James Kelman, a leading Scottish author, and his use of language. It examines how Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his stories while breaking…
Mitch Miller,Johnny Rodger
The Red Cockatoo is the first full length study of the work of James Kelman to take full cognisance of the author’s political commitments and activism throughout his career. This…
Rositsa Kronast
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, LMU Munich (Department fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar Scottish Literature, History…
These 35 short stories–most published in this country for the first time–bring to mind, at various moments, such diverse masterpieces … as James Joyce’s Dubliners … and the parables of…
Set in an unnamed place that appears to be under military rule, this novel is reminiscent of accounts of incidents in Rwanda, Yugoslavia and the Cultural Revolution in China. A…
From the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman, comes a road trip through the American South
This story of a man attempting not to go mad when forced to stop his own writing in order to teach is a brilliant satire of contemporary literary culture.
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James Kelman’s inimitable voice brings the stories of lost men tolight in these twenty one tales of down on their luck antiheroes whowander, drink, hatch plans, ponder existence…
Patrick Doyle is a 29-year-old teacher in an ordinary school. Disaffected, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, Patrick begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink…
Winner of the Booker Prize: A work of marvelous vibrance and richness of character. –New York Times Book Review
Mr James Kelman
Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman. He ‘brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can’ ALAN WARNER
The new novel from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman, ‘Dirt Road is about coming of age, grief and the folk music of the American deep south’ - Daily Telegraph
Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman. He ‘brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can’ - Alan Warner
James Kelman,Noam Chomsky
The world is full of information. What do we do when we get the information, when we have digested the information, what do we do then? Is there a point…
James Kelman 1917- Duncan
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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