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New York. 1988. February 1988. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374166870. 230 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph by Harvey Kerr. keywords: Literature Scotland . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Writing in tough, sometimes grim language, Glasgow native Kelman (A CHANCER, THE BUSCONDUCTOR HINES) conveys the streets, pubs and tenements of Glasgow, Manchester and London. This collection of 47 stories is an uneven assortment; to read them together is like finding a precious stone under one rock and an unsavory object under the next. A unifying voice throughout the stories lulls with a gentle lilting wit, but that same voice can turn into a nasty snarl. And even at its mildest, there is hardly a page in the book without several obscene words. Some of the stories are only a paragraph long, while others are rambling monologues of several pages. Perhaps the best writing lies in the affecting third-person narratives in which Kelman deftly evokes a mood, a place, a character or a…
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- Title Greyhound for Break
- Author James Kelman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First American E
- Pages 229
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
- Date 1988
- ISBN 9780374166878 / 0374166870
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects Scotland - Social life and customs - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 87033050
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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