Greyhound for breakfast
By: James Kelman
Publisher: Polygon
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846970542
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Fiction
Description: Forty-seven of Kelman's most exhilarating and eloquent stories set in the tenements and casinos of Glasgow, Manchester and London.
Notes: Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1987.
Table of contents: title: Old Francis; title: A history; title: The one with the dog; title: of the spirit; title: Renee; title: Fifty pence; title: Even money; title: Home for a couple of days; title: Manchester in July; title: not too long from now tonight will be that last time; title: Forgetting to mention Allende; title: Samaritans; title: Foreign language users; title: Let that be a lesson; title: Good intentions; title: Cute chick!; title: The small family; title: End of a beginning; title: Leader from a quality newspaper; title: A Sunday evening; title: Benson's visitor; title: Governor of the situation; title: The band of hope; title: This man for fuck sake; title: Half an hour before he died; title: In with the doctor; title: That other; title: More complaints from the American correspondent; title: Where but what; title: The guy with the crutch; title: Undeciphered tremors; title: The wee boy that got killed; title: Incident on a windswept beach; title: A rolling machine; title: The red cockatoos; title: The failure; title: Dum vivimus, vivamus; title: The wean and that; title: Even in communal pitches; title: An old story; title: dear o dear; title: A hunter; title: Sunday papers; title: Getting outside; title: John Devine; title: One such preparation; title: Greyhound for breakfast.