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That was a shiver : and other stories / James Kelman.
Van Pelt Library PR6061.E518 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kelman, James, 1946- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 307 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Canongate, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Oh the days ahead
- The cartwheels of life
- Clinging on
- This has no title
- The state of Elixirism
- (Tzekovitz was Another)
- Pick up the pieces
- A friend
- One has one's weans
- Bringing her to the library
- Did the Pixie speak?
- Volcanic matters
- The principal's decision
- Words and things to sip
- Human resources tract 2: Our hope in playing the rules
- The twitch
- Untethered
- The truth that Timmy knew
- Out there
- God looks down
- Back in that town
- A night at the theatre
- Items precarious
- That was a shiver.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781786890900
- 1786890909
- OCLC:
- 999618070
- Publisher Number:
- 99976038813
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