If it is Your Life
By James Kelman, Penguin Books 2010
280 pages, hardback
拢18.99
This is Scottish author James Kelman鈥檚 first collection of short stories since The Good Times in 1998.
Right from the very first sentence you know you are back in the distinctive world of Kelman鈥檚 fiction: 鈥淲hen I presented myself at the Emergency section of the Social Security Office I knew things could go wrong but I was not expecting a leg amputated.鈥