| Busted Scotch: Selected Stories Contributor(s): Kelman, James (Author), Kelman, James (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0393317773 ISBN-13: 9780393317770 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: 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 Kafka" ("The Village Voice"). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96035251 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 4.94" W x 9.09" (0.74 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The stories of Busted Scotch are set in the working-class milieu of Scotland and England--the pubs, betting shops, tenements, bedrooms, snooker parlors, and decaying industrial workplaces. They range widely in length from a few paragraphs to twenty-plus pages, in style from the deceptively offhand to the highly farcical, and in subject matter from the casual everyday tragedies to the heartbreaking vicissitudes of romance and language. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kelman, James: - James Kelman is the author of novels, plays, and essays, including Busted Scotch and You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland. |