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Hardcover Busted Scotch: Selected Stories Book

ISBN: 0393040720

ISBN13: 9780393040722

Busted Scotch: Selected Stories

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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. This description...

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3 customer ratings | 3 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Poverty, cigarettes, booze and welfare

Flashes of genius but not always readable. Short stories that sometimes lapse into incoherent surrealistic stream of consciousness. The understandability is often further reduced by phonetic spelling of dialect. The phonetic spelling assumes that the reader normally speaks Southern British English (for example "game" spelled "gemm.") At times it is absolutely brilliant with dark humor describing the way the shiftless (often...

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Rated 4 stars
On Reflection: Good

A wide range of stories of life in the slow lane of post industrial Scotland. I picked up this book in a store, tried to read it and pretty much immediately put it down for six months. I was put off by the written Scots dialect (in some (not all) of the stories), the seeming inconsequentality of some of the storylines, and the surreal nature of some others.I'm glad I picked it up again. I tried reading "Nice to be Nice"...

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Rated 5 stars
Dark, bleak, brilliant stories about post-industrial angst.

Kelman's collection of short stories is a bleak affair, a series of grim portraits of disaffected Scots who bumble through their Kafkaesque lives. Stories begin in the middle of a narrative, and end before any concrete resolution. Enigmatic dwarves invade a migrant workers' camp and pub, with bizarre effects. Absurdity coexists with anxiety, dispair with some aching longing for better times, when the true reason things are...

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