Kieron Smith, boy
  • Published:
    Nov-2008 (Hardcover)
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    432
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I had cousins at sea. One was in the Cadets. I was wanting to join. My maw did not want me to but my da said I could if I wanted, it was a good life and ye saved yer money, except if ye were daft and done silly things. He said it to me. I would just have to grow up first.
James Kelman's triumph in Kieron Smith, boy is to bring us completely inside the head of a child and remind us what strange and beautiful things happen in there.
Here is the story of a boyhood in a large industrial city during a time of great social change. Kieron grows from age five to early adolescence amid the general trauma of everyday life--the death of a beloved grandparent, the move to a new home. A whole world is brilliantly realized: sectarian football matches; ferryboats on the river; the unfairness of being a younger brother; climbing drainpipes, trees, and roofs; dogs, cats, sex, and ghosts.
This is a powerful, often hilarious, startlingly direct evocation of childhood.
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    •  
    • Apr-2009
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 014101489X
    • ISBN13: 9780141014890
    • First Edition
    • Nov-2008
    • Harcourt
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0151013489
    • ISBN13: 9780151013487
    •  
    • Nov-2008
    • Harcourt
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0547541171
    • ISBN13: 9780547541174
    •  
    • Nov-2008
    • Houghton Mifflin
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • May-2009
    • Penguin UK
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0141919396
    • ISBN13: 9780141919393



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