The Busconductor Hines
Title | The Busconductor Hines PDF eBook |
Author | James Kelman |
Publisher | Birlinn Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Bus lines |
ISBN | 9781846970399 |
Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won't come to anything, Robert Hines is a young Glaswegian leading a pretty drab life. There are compensations, however, in his wife and child, and his eccentric, anarchic imagination. Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life – an intelligent, funny and humane novel.
Mo Said She Was Quirky
Title | Mo Said She Was Quirky PDF eBook |
Author | James Kelman |
Publisher | Other Press, LLC |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2013-04-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590516001 |
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
Title | How Late It Was How Late PDF eBook |
Author | James Kelman |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2012-09-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1448104939 |
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
Title | Dirt Road PDF eBook |
Author | James Kelman |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2016-07-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1782118241 |
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 Chancer
Title | A Chancer PDF eBook |
Author | James Kelman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Tammas is twenty, a loner and a compulsive gambler. Unable to hold a job for long, his life revolves around Glasgow bars, home with his sister and brother-in-law, the dog track, betting shops, casinos and occasionally a day at the races. Sometimes Tammy wins, more often he loses, but betting gives him as good a chance as any of discovering what he really seeks from life since society offers him no prospect of a better or more fulfilling altenative.
City Visions
Title | City Visions PDF eBook |
Author | David Bell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2018-10-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317881575 |
A collection of the latest work on the city, presenting contemporary theories, methods and perspectives in an accessible format for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates in geography, cultural studies and sociology.
Posting the Male
Title | Posting the Male PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Lea |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9789042009769 |
The essays collected in Posting the Male examine representations of masculinity in post-war and contemporary British literature, focussing on the works of writers as diverse as John Osborne, Joe Orton, James Kelman, Ian Rankin, Carol Ann Duffy, Alan Hollinghurst, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift and Jackie Kay. The collection seeks to capture the current historical moment of 'crisis', at which masculinity loses its universal transparency and becomes visible as a performative gender construct. Rather than denoting just one fixed, polarised point on a hierarchised axis of strictly segregated gender binaries, masculinity is revealed to oscillate within a virtually limitless spectrum of gender identities, characterised not by purity and self-containment but by difference and alterity. As the contributors demonstrate, rather than a gender 'in crisis' millennial manhood is a gender 'in transition'. Patriarchal strategies of man-making are gradually being replaced by less exclusionary patterns of self-identification inspired by feminism. Men have begun to recognise themselves as gendered beings and, as a result, masculinity has been set in motion.