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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.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 384 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781629639390 |
| ISBN-10: | 1629639397 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Kelman, James |
| Hersteller: | PM Press |
| Maße: | 202 x 127 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | James Kelman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.07.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,32 kg |
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
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 384 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781629639390 |
| ISBN-10: | 1629639397 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Kelman, James |
| Hersteller: | PM Press |
| Maße: | 202 x 127 x 25 mm |
| Von/Mit: | James Kelman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 21.07.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,32 kg |
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