by James Kelman · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749386160
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Greyhound for Breakfast» is the collection of 47 stories by Scottish writer James Kelman, published by Minerva in paperback (229 pages, in English).
The collected stories span James Kelman's writing from 1972 and show his wide register: from casual tragedy to absurd farce, from the concrete to the lyrical. The book elevates humble life to literary material, with settings in housing blocks and cheap casinos in Glasgow, Manchester and London.
The Minerva edition was published in August 1997. Greyhound for Breakfast received the Cheltenham Prize for Literature.
For readers of contemporary short fiction and twentieth-century Scottish literature.
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."
