Busted Scotch
Subtitle: selected stories
By: by James Kelman.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Scotland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: This collection of 35 short stories - most of them being published in this country for the first time - has been selected and arranged by James Kelman himself from over two decades of his work.

The stories of Busted Scotch are set in the working-class milieu of Scotland and England - the pubs, betting shops, tenements, bedrooms, snooker parlors, and decaying industrial workplaces. They range widely in length from a few paragraphs to twenty-plus pages, in style from the deceptively offhand to the highly farcical, and in subject matter from the casual everyday tragedies to the heartbreaking vicissitudes of romance and language.