The Good Times

by James Kelman

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These 20 first-person narratives portray ordinary people in a language that makes glory of their lives. The narrators are men and boys who come face to face with uncomfortable truths, whether musing on mortality, encountering betrayals, or struggling to understand women and work.

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Eh. I've never been a fan of first person narration, or overwhelming proportions of dialogue to all else, or textual accents, or a lack of identifiers for speech (ie quotation marks or dashes or, god, something). This short story collection has all of that, and little else. If the stories were better crafted and less aimless, maybe I'd have enjoyed them, but as is, this was just not my cup of tea.

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General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PR6061 .E518 .G66Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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