Not Not While the Giro: And Other Stories
β Scribed by James Kelman
- Book ID
- 100146485
- Publisher
- Birlinn
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0857901478
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β¦ Synopsis
A collection of short stories which follow the lives of young men, social misfits, whose lives are spent waiting - waiting for their next giro or menial job - in the pub, the dole office, the snooker table and the greyhound track.
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