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Karl Miller, 2 March 1989
The Book of Sandy Stewart
edited by Roger Leitch.
Scottish Academic Press, 168 pp., £15, December 1988,0 7073 0560 8 Show More
edited by Roger Leitch.
Scottish Academic Press, 168 pp., £15, December 1988,
“... Studying the West Coast of Scotland from the yacht Britannia, the Queen is said to have remarked, not long ago, that the people there didn’t seem to have much of a life. James Kelman’s stories make clear what life is like in Glasgow,* and what James Kelman’s life is like. They are not going to change the royal mind. This is the queen who was greeted, on a visit to a Scottish university, by the sight of a student emptying down his throat, at top speed, the contents of a bottle of alcohol ... ”
