James Kelman
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James Kelman is a Booker Prize winner with a decorated writing career and intense critical acclaim.Kelman has been named “the greatest living British novelist” in both the Sunday Herald and Frieze Magazine.Only Kelman’s second book set in America, Dirt Road is both a road trip through the music and culture of the American South and a beautiful coming-of-age story.Kelman’s new novel has a unique voice and style, at once musical and meditative, that will make readers feel immersed in Murdo’s experience as he transforms his grief into epiphany through embracing the music and culture of the American South. The novel will resonate with fans of Ivrine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Zadie Smith’s NW, and Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff.Dirt Road is the perfect book to break James Kelman to the American audience in a big way—it’s accessible, emotional, and vibrates with love for American culture.
That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories
SHORTLISTED FOR SALTIRE FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE, 2018
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.
Dirt Road
Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond his Scottish island home. His dad Tom has recently lost his wife and stumbles towards the future, terrified of losing control of what remains of his family life
Both are in search of something as they set out on an expedition into the American South.
As they travel they encounter a new world and we discover whether the hopes of youth can conquer the fears of age.
Dirt Road is a major novel exploring the brevity of life, the agonising demands of love and the lure of the open road. It is also a beautiful book about the power of music and all that it can offer.