Jack Proctor, a celebrated older writer and curmudgeon, goes off to residency where he is to be an honored part of teaching and giving public readings, he soon finds the atmosphere of the literary world has changed since his last foray into the public sphere. Unknown to most, unable to work on his own writing, surrounded by a host of odd characters, would-be writers, antagonists, handlers, and members of the elite House of Art and Aesthetics, Proctor finds himself driven to distraction (literally in a very very tiny car). This is a story of a man attempting not to go mad when forced to stop…mehr
Jack Proctor, a celebrated older writer and curmudgeon, goes off to residency where he is to be an honored part of teaching and giving public readings, he soon finds the atmosphere of the literary world has changed since his last foray into the public sphere. Unknown to most, unable to work on his own writing, surrounded by a host of odd characters, would-be writers, antagonists, handlers, and members of the elite House of Art and Aesthetics, Proctor finds himself driven to distraction (literally in a very very tiny car). This is a story of a man attempting not to go mad when forced to stop his own writing in order to coach others to write. Proctor’s tour of rural places, pubs, theaters, fancy parties, where he is to be headlining as a "Banker-Prize-Winning-Author" reads like a literary version of Spinal Tap. Uproariously funny, brilliantly philosophical, gorgeously written this is James Kelman at his best.
James Kelman was born in Glasgow, June 1946, and left school in 1961. He began work in the printing trade then moved around, working in various jobs in various places. He was living in England when he started writing: ramblings, musings, sundry phantasmagoria. He committed to it and kept at it. In 1969 he met and married Marie Connors from South Wales. They settled in Glasgow and still live in the dump, not far from their kids and grandkids. He still plugs away at the ramblings, musings, politicking and so on, supported by the same lady.
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Chapters 1 Eighteen Months Later! 2 Who did you say you were again? 3 Stan scrached his head 4 Flying seagulls and that Belgian guy 5 The Patience to Live 6 Who I am 7 Excuse me are you expecting a writer today? 8 His eyes drifted skyward 9 Art students interested in art 10 Matters Empathetic 11 School in the Morning 12 . . . then in the Afternoon 13 Shared Roots 14 Square-toed Luggers 15 I could have been a Dance Troupe! 16 Little Georgic 17 The Vanity of the Poet-Professor 18 Dont mess with Miles 19 On We Go 20 In Time 21 All is not Lost 22 The Pattern 24 My name is so and so and I am a writer 25 The Only Resident in the Entire Fucking Dump 26 Horrible Nonsense 27 There we are 28 When Hannah thought of me I was thinking of her 29 Horrible Nonsense right enough 30 Ever Thus 31 I would have wanted to batter somebody 32 A Proper Event 33 Miaow 34 The Gory Details 35 Feet Without One’s Partner 36 The Ugly Troot 37 Ghost Writers in the Sky 38 Knackert 39 Agatha Christie to Gertrude Stein 40 How long is a short story? 41 The Terms 42 Easy does it 43 Grounds for Optimism 44 Writers go away and come back 45 Later it was later 46 The difficulty of the I-voice ending 47 Tallulah & the Vamps 48 Ach 49 Aye and fuck them all Notes toward the Author’s Preface to 'Afterword', inserted and accepted as afterword in-itself Afterword, by Jermyn Gerald-Brooke
Chapters 1 Eighteen Months Later! 2 Who did you say you were again? 3 Stan scrached his head 4 Flying seagulls and that Belgian guy 5 The Patience to Live 6 Who I am 7 Excuse me are you expecting a writer today? 8 His eyes drifted skyward 9 Art students interested in art 10 Matters Empathetic 11 School in the Morning 12 . . . then in the Afternoon 13 Shared Roots 14 Square-toed Luggers 15 I could have been a Dance Troupe! 16 Little Georgic 17 The Vanity of the Poet-Professor 18 Dont mess with Miles 19 On We Go 20 In Time 21 All is not Lost 22 The Pattern 24 My name is so and so and I am a writer 25 The Only Resident in the Entire Fucking Dump 26 Horrible Nonsense 27 There we are 28 When Hannah thought of me I was thinking of her 29 Horrible Nonsense right enough 30 Ever Thus 31 I would have wanted to batter somebody 32 A Proper Event 33 Miaow 34 The Gory Details 35 Feet Without One’s Partner 36 The Ugly Troot 37 Ghost Writers in the Sky 38 Knackert 39 Agatha Christie to Gertrude Stein 40 How long is a short story? 41 The Terms 42 Easy does it 43 Grounds for Optimism 44 Writers go away and come back 45 Later it was later 46 The difficulty of the I-voice ending 47 Tallulah & the Vamps 48 Ach 49 Aye and fuck them all Notes toward the Author’s Preface to 'Afterword', inserted and accepted as afterword in-itself Afterword, by Jermyn Gerald-Brooke
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