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How Late It Was How Late

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448104932

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WINNER OF 1994 THE BOOKER PRIZE. Sammy's had a bad week. Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's been arrested then beaten up by the police and thrown out on the street - and he's just gone blind. He remembers a row with his girlfriend, but she seems to have disappeared; and he might have been trying to fix a bit of business up with an old mate, he's not too sure. Things aren't looking too good for Sammy and his problems have hardly begun. 'A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book' Guardian

Dirt Road

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782118244

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Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond his Scottish island home. His dad Tom has recently lost his wife and stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing control of what remains of his family life Both are in search of something as they set out on an expedition into the American South. As they travel they encounter a new world and we discover whether the hopes of youth can conquer the fears of age. Dirt Road is a major novel exploring the brevity of life, the agonising demands of love and the lure of the open road. It is also a beautiful book about the power of music and all that it can offer.

A Disaffection

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448104857

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Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher.

Mo Said She Was Quirky

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590516003

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Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman Pdf

James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen—a sister, a mother, a daughter—a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky but she is much more than that. Trust, love, relationships; parents, children, lovers; death, wealth, home: these are the ordinary parts of the everyday that become extraordinary when you think of them as Helen does, each waking hour. Mo Said She Was Quirky begins on Helen’s way home from work, with the strangest of moments when a skinny, down-at-heel man crosses the road in front of her and appears to be her lost brother. What follows is an inspired and absorbing story of twenty-four hours in the life of a young woman.

How Late it Was, how Late

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American fiction
ISBN : PSU:000033164229

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Winner of the Booker Prize. "A work of marvelous vibrance and richness of character." "New York Times" Book Review

Translated Accounts

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Military government
ISBN : 0099422190

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This novel is set in an unnamed country that appears to be under military rule. The language used is an atypical English form, but akin to the basic translation that might appear within a department of an overseas foreign office.

Late Nights on Air

Elizabeth Hay
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Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551994314

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The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on a canoe trip four of them make into the Arctic wilderness (following in the steps of the legendary Englishman John Hornby, who, along with his small party, starved to death in the barrens in 1927), they find the balance of love shifting, much as the balance of power in the North is being changed by the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline, which threatens to displace Native people from their land. With unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this award–winning novel, Hay brings to bear her skewering intelligence into the frailties of the human heart and her ability to tell a spellbinding story. Written in gorgeous prose, laced with dark humour, Late Nights on Air is Hay’s most seductive and accomplished novel yet.

In a Strange Room

Damon Galgut
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Author : Damon Galgut
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450199

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From the Man Booker Prize–winner of The Promise: “This tale of ill-fated journeys through Greece, Africa and India shows” the author of The Quarry “at a superb new high” (The Guardian). In this newest novel from South African writer Damon Galgut, a young loner travels across eastern Africa, Europe, and India. Unsure what he’s after, and reluctant to return home, he follows the paths of travelers he meets along the way. Each new encounter—with an enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers, and a woman on the verge—leads him closer to confronting his own identity. Traversing the quiet of wilderness and the frenzy of border crossings, every new direction is tinged with surmounting mourning, as he is propelled toward a tragic conclusion. Shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, In a Strange Room is a hauntingly beautiful evocation of life on the road. It was first published in the Paris Review in three parts—“The Follower,” “The Lover,” and “The Guardian”—one of which was selected for a National Magazine Award and another for the O. Henry Prize.

The Good Doctor

Damon Galgut
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Author : Damon Galgut
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802191496

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“A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel” of the dashed hopes of post-apartheid South Africa and the small betrayals that doom a friendship (The Guardian). An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor has inspired enthusiastic interest around the world and has assured Damon Galgut’s place as a major international talent. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not—young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Frank’s own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities—but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last. “Galgut’s prose, its gentle rhythms and straightforward sentences edging toward revelation, is utterly seductive and suspenseful . . . Galgut is a master of psychological tension. . . . Tragic and brilliant.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

If You're Reading This, It's Too Late

Pseudonymous Bosch
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Author : Pseudonymous Bosch
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316041034

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If You're Reading This, It's Too Late by Pseudonymous Bosch Pdf

Beware! Dangerous secrets lie between the pages of this book. OK, I warned you. But if you think I'll give anything away, or tell you that this is the sequel to my first literary endeavor, The Name of This Book is Secret, you're wrong. I'm not going to remind you of how we last left our heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest, as they awaited intiation into the mysterious Terces Society, or the ongoing fight against the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais. I certainly won't be telling you about how the kids stumble upon the Museum of Magic, where they finally meet the amazing Pietro! Oh, blast! I've done it again. Well, at least I didn't tell you about the missing Sound Prism, the nefarious Lord Pharaoh, or the mysterious creature born in a bottle over 500 years ago, the key to the biggest secret of all. I really can't help myself, now can I? Let's face it - if you're reading this, it's too late.

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart
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Author : Douglas Stuart
Publisher : Picador USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 152901929X

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Winner of the Booker Prize Winner of 'Book of the Year' and 'Debut of the Year' at the British Book Awards The Million-Copy Bestseller 'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' - The judges of the Booker Prize 'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' - Observer It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and as she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different, he is clearly no' right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place. Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of A Little Life and Angela's Ashes, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell. 'A heartbreaking novel' - The Times 'Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' - Daily Mail

Strange Bedfellows

Russell Leslie Peterson
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Author : Russell Leslie Peterson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813542843

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A significant number of Americans get some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. Is "infotainment" a debasement, or a replacement, for traditional news outlets?

That was a Shiver

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Families
ISBN : 1786890909

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Intimate new stories from the Booker Prize-winning James Kelman, bringing 'alive a human consciousness like no other writer can'. A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father. Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories reveal profound human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.

The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction

J. Scott
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Author : J. Scott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230236882

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This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or national dialects). The book examines the work of James Kelman, Graham Swift, Will Self and Martin Amis, amongst many others, from a practical as well as theoretical perspective.

A Chancer

James Kelman
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Author : James Kelman
Publisher : Polygon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drifters
ISBN : 1846970407

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Tammas is 20, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, living with his sister and brother-in-law, betting shops, and casinos. Sometimes Tammas wins, more often he loses. But gambling gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he seeks from life since society offers no prospect of a more fulfilling alternative.