James Kelman
Birth date: June 09, 1946
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This novel centres around Murdo, a 16-year-old Scottish lad from the islands, who travels to the US with his father to stay with an uncle in Kentucky after his mother has died from cancer. This follows the death of his sister several years earlier. Murdo doesn't talk much nor does his father and the...
Lots and lots of scotch. Think it would be nice? Well, it's one of those local collections of stories. I'm not that interested in bar life in Scotland. Read a few, even the one in dialect, skimmed a lot. May try one of his other works.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/673568485
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2009/06/unfinished-friday-dont-call-me-crook-by.html
Outstanding. One of the best through-the-eyes-of-a-child books I've ever read, right up there with Catcher in the Rye. For linguistic brilliance it can only be compared to those early chapters of Portrait of the Artist. There's not a lot of plot, but I just felt so attached to Kieron that I wanted t...
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