by James Kelman · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330296649
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«A Chancer» is the novel by James Kelman, published by Picador in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Tammas, a twenty-year-old young man, is a compulsive gambler who cannot hold down a job. His life unfolds between the pubs, betting shops, dog track and casinos of Glasgow; sometimes he wins, but almost always he loses. For him, gambling is a way of seeking meaning in a society without alternatives. Kelman structures the novel in episodes of staccato dialogue that reflect the characters' direct experience.
The book first appeared in 1985, with Polygon Books; the Picador edition is from 1987.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Scottish narrative interested in urban social realism.
James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working-class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival."
