That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father. Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories uncover human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.
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That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father. Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories uncover human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.
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That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

by James Kelman
That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories
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That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

by James Kelman

Overview

SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 A local tries to sell his sister to a trucker as he passes through town; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a man looks into a mirror and reflects on becoming more like his father. Sparky, touching and brilliantly daring, these stories uncover human feeling in the ordinary and the everyday, and are a reminder of Kelman's exceptional talent.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786890924
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: 01/01/2019
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.07(w) x 7.79(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late it Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011.

James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late It Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011. His latest novel, Dirt Road, was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year in 2016.

Table of Contents

Oh the Days ahead 1

The Cartwheels of Life 35

Clinging On 43

This has no Title 47

The State of Elixirism 59

(Tzekovitz was Another) 69

Pick up the Pieces 87

A Friend 105

One has One's Weans 109

Bringing her to the Library 125

Did the Pixie speak? 133

Volcanic Matters 161

The Principal's Decision 167

Words and Things to Sip 173

Human Resources Tract 2: Our Hope in Playing the Rules 191

The Twitch 197

Untethered 203

The Truth that Timmy knew 209

Out There 219

God looks down 223

Back in that town 229

A Night at the Theatre 251

Items Precarious 261

That Was a Shiver 269

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