A Disaffection
Softcover book. Picador . 1990. 337 pages.
Good Condition.
*What an enviably, devilishly wonderful writer is James Kelman. His magic, in A Disaffection, is to transform working-class speech and life into an exuberant, poignant, poetic, down-to-earth and masterful work of love, loneliness and social oppression. This book is nothing less than inspiring'
John Hawkes
'Ironic and deeply humane... this is Kelman's most ambitious and sophisticated fiction to date' Brian Morton, New Statesman and Society
'James Kelman's third novel confirms his status as one of the most individual stylists of his generation ... the brilliance with which he has caught the tough, canny, uncompromising language of Glasgow, and the way in which he is able so effectively to manage silences, prove him a master craftsman, to be ranked as the heir to Pinter and Beckett' Kevin Loader, Weekend Telegraph
'This is Scots realism, but the reference points are from far away, from Kafka, Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky ... the power of James Kelman's writing is unquestionable' Evening Standard
I feel the book is pretty terrific, both truly challenging and nearly always very diverting' Karl Miller, London Review of Books
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE, 1989
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