You have to be careful in the land of the free
By: James Kelman.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Scots -- United States -- Fiction; Marginality, Social -- Fiction; Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction; Gamblers -- Fiction; Drifters -- Fiction; Aliens -- Fiction; Glasgow (Scotland) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Jeremiah is booked tomorrow on the first leg of a journey that will eventually take him back to Scotland. He's been living in America for twelve years now and he just fancies seeing the family again. But is that all it is? What about the endless towns and the hopeless jobs, the broken relationships and the blunted ambition? And the gambling. Ah yes, the gambling." "You see Jeremiah Brown is a man of extremes. So when he nips out of the motel for a quick drink on the eve of his return to the country of his birth, anything could happen. Anything at all. Just one drink to help him sleep but there's something about this town that reminds him of his ex, the mother of his daughter. Soon the memories are flooding in and as the night goes on and the decision to give up smoking looks increasingly ill-timed for a card-carrying alien of questionable politics, Jeremiah getting on that flight tomorrow seems far from certain. Is there any such thing as a certainty? Not tonight. Tonight the only thing certain is that you have to be very careful in the land of the free."--BOOK JACKET.