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Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.

James Kelman

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James Kelman

James Kelman

Born: June 9, 1946 (age 76)
Bio: James Kelman is an influential Scottish writer of novels, short stories, plays, and political essays. His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989.
Known for:
  1. How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
  2. A Disaffection (1989)
  3. Kieron Smith, Boy (2008)
  4. Mo Said She Was Quirky (2012)
  5. The Busconductor Hines (1984)

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