Джеймс Келман: Not Not While the Giro

Not Not While the Giro is James Kelman s first major collection of short stories — originally published by Polygon in 1983. The reader follows the lives of young men, social misfits, whose lives are spent waiting — waiting for their next giro or menial job — in the pub, the dole office, the snooker table and the greyhound track. This collection, written with irony and great tenderness, confirmed James Kelman s status as one of the most significant writers in the UK, and remains as powerful, relevant and truthful as it was in the early 1980s.