{"product_id":"9798887440057","title":"All We Have Is the Story","description":"Author: James Kelman\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798887440057\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 31 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 352\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom his first publication (a short story collection \u003ci\u003eAn Old Pub Near the Angel\u003c\/i\u003e on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (\u003ci\u003eGod\u0026amp;#x27;s Teeth and other Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e) and work with Noam Chomsky (\u003ci\u003eBetween Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime \u003c\/i\u003e- both published on a slightly larger American press), \u003ci\u003eAll We Have Is the Story\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the life and work - to date - of \u0026amp;#x27;Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.\u0026amp;#x27; (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing deeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously political, philosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates the complexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voice and grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity and empathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and ends with the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;One of the things the establishment always does is isolate voices of dissent and make them specific - unique if possible. It\u0026amp;#x27;s easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there\u0026amp;#x27;s him in prose and him in poetry. As soon as you say there\u0026amp;#x27;s him, him, and her there, and that guy here and that woman over there, and there\u0026amp;#x27;s all these other writers in Africa, and then you\u0026amp;#x27;ve got Ireland, the Caribean - suddenly there\u0026amp;#x27;s this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes something dangerous, something that the establishment won\u0026amp;#x27;t want people to relate to and go Christ, you\u0026amp;#x27;re doing the same as me. Suddenly there\u0026amp;#x27;s a movement going on. It\u0026amp;#x27;s fine when it\u0026amp;#x27;s all these disparate voices; you can contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say 'You\u0026amp;#x27;re on your own, you\u0026amp;#x27;re a phenomenon.' I\u0026amp;#x27;m not a phenomenon at all: I\u0026amp;#x27;m just a part of what\u0026amp;#x27;s been happening in prose for a long, long while.\u0026amp;#x27; - James Kelman from a 1993 interview\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.\u0026amp;#x27; - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Kelman has the knack, maybe more than anyone since Joyce, of fixing in his writing the lyricism of ordinary people's speech...Pure aesthete, undaunted democrat - somehow Kelman manages to reconcile his two halves.\u0026amp;#x27; - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;A true original...A real artist...it's now very difficult to see which of his peers can seriously be ranked alongside [Kelman] without ironic eyebrows being raised.\u0026amp;#x27; - Irvine Welsh, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46882724806814,"sku":"ADS-9798887440057","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798887440057.jpg?v=1779861551","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798887440057","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}