The Good Times
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The Good Times by James Kelman
These twenty first person narratives portray ordinary people in a language that makes glory of their lives. The narrators are men and boys who come face to face with uncomfortable truths whether musing on mortality, encountering betrayals both devastating and trivial, or struggling to understand women and work. a boy resolves to hang up his boots after a perceived slight; a divorced man is forced to provide an alibi for his philandering friend and confront his own loneliness; a middle-aged man, awake late because of his nightmares, contemplates 'a future of dwindling strengths'; a group of part-time musicians discuss Rock as Art as they wait for hte soup to boil.
James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946. A Disaffection won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which he won in 1994 for How Late it was, How Late.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099276975 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099276976 |
| Title | The Good Times |
| Author | James Kelman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Winner of Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year 1998 |
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