A Chancer - Brossura

Kelman, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330296647 ISBN 13: 9780330296649

Casa editrice: Picador, 1987

Riassunto

Tammas is twenty, a loner and 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 Tammas 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 alternative.

‘The novel flows enjoyably as a series of episodes, some of them truncated bits of dialogue, often with a jerky syntax reflecting the way in which experiences are actually felt by the characters. Kelman’s broad sympathy results in a vital depiction of everything stagnant as well as the possibility of a new beginning at the very end, much of it achieved through understated eloquence’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Kelman’s best novel so far . . . This is the most depressingly fair and sophisticated picture of Glasgow life, at one of its most significant levels, that has yet been written: I respect its craft and truth enormously’ Books in Scotland

‘A highly original production in which Kelman conveys a brilliant impression of the malaise of contemporary life . . . This understated novel about ordinary desperation should win him an even larger readership’ British Book News

‘Remarkable . . . Kelman accepts patois for what it is, not what the dictionary tells him it is: the language of his place now. He insists on its cadences, eccentricities, diction, its cursing and swearing, its profanity, all as necessary parts to be fitted together into a realism that does not fudge the truth’ Glasgow Herald

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

‘One of Scotland’s most innovative writers whose unsparing rendering of modern urban life catches the tenor of the times’ Scotsman

L'autore:

James Kelman (b. 1946) is an influential author of short stories, novels and essays. He won the 1994 Booker Prize wit How Late It Was, How Late. Other novels include Disaffectation and You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0330296647
• ISBN 13: 9780330296649
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320