
That Was a Shiver
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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.
Shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year·Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.
"Kelman brings alive a human consciousness like no other writer can." -Alan Warner, award-winning author of The Man Who Walks
"The mixture of the precisely but surreally bureaucratic and the casually macabre is perfectly judged." - The Times
"Kelman is on another level to most of the living writers in the UK." - The Guardian
"Kelman has always been a true and honest writer; which is why he is one of the fairly few who really matter." - Scotsman
"Kelman's language is immediately exciting; like a musician, he uses repetition and rhythm." - The New Yorker
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- Intro
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Also by James Kelman
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Oh the Days ahead
- The Cartwheels of Life
- Clinging On
- This has no Title
- The State of Elixirism
- (Tzekovitz was Another)
- Pick up the Pieces
- A Friend
- One has One's Weans
- Bringing her to the Library
- Did the Pixie speak?
- Volcanic Matters
- The Principal's Decision
- Words and Things to Sip
- Human Resources Tract 2: Our Hope in Playing the Rules
- The Twitch
- Untethered
- The Truth that Timmy knew
- Out There
- God looks down
- Back in that town
- A Night at the Theatre
- Items Precarious
- That Was a Shiver
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