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That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories

James Kelman

SHORTLISTED FOR 2017 SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

A trucker passes through a town he used to know and a local tries to sell him his sister; a couple put their children to bed and hear a loud scratching at the wall; a Principal and his associate examine the dead body before them; 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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publish Date: Mar 6th, 2018
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Main - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 1.10in - 0.95lb
  • EAN: 9781786890900
  • Categories: Literary

About the Author

Kelman, James: - 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.

Praise for this book

Kelman brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can--ALAN WARNER
Kelman has always been a true and honest writer; which is why he is one of the fairly few who really matter--ALLAN MASSIE "Scotsman "
The mixture of the precisely but surreally bureaucratic and the casually macabre is perfectly judged--Sunday Times
Kelman is on another level to most of the living writers in the UK--Guardian
Kelman's language is immediately exciting; like a musician, he uses repetition and rhythm--New Yorker