"The Good Times" was James Kelman's first work after winning the Booker Prize for his novel. How late it was, how late. The twenty first-person narratives portray ordinary people - men and boys facing uncomfortable truths, encountering betrayal or struggling to understand women and work. Tender and lyrical, "The Good Times" is a dazzling collection from one of the world's masters of the short-story form.
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Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This is Scottish writer Kelman's first new work since his Booker Prize-winning novel How Late It Was, How Late. The collection features 20 stories, all narrated by male voices and all exploring what it means to be relied upon as a boy or a manAhow societal expectations of male roles shape behavior. Kelman writes with a coarse authenticity, exposing with raw honesty the bleak domestic lives and rough edges of so many of his working-class men. As with any writing that captures a regional vernacular so completely, it takes some pages for the reader's eyes and ears to adjust to the voices in this collection, and Kelman's extensive use of profanity may not appeal to all readers. Recommended where interest warrants.ACaroline M. Hallsworth, Cambrian Coll. Lib., Sudbury, Ont.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Well-Written Yet Uncompelling,
By A. Ross (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
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The twenty stories here offer little variation from those in Busted Scotch. Written in the first-person, these are again mostly from a lower-class male perspective. They often feel fragmentary in nature, rarely offering up a traditional "story" per se, they tend to be more about how people communicate and misunderstand each other. Kelman's a good writer, but I don't find his stories particularly interesting.
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