Busted Scotch
James Kelman
W. W. Norton & Company
<p>This collection of 35 short stories&#8212;most of them being published in this country for the first time&#8212;has been selected and arranged by James Kelman himself from over two decades of his work.The stories of <i>Busted Scotch</i> are set in the working-class milieu of Scotland and England&#8212;the pubs, betting shops, tenements, bedrooms, snooker parlors, and decaying industrial workplaces. They range widely in length from a few paragraphs to twenty-plus pages, in style from the deceptively offhand to the highly farcical, and in subject matter from the casual everyday tragedies to the heartbreaking vicissitudes of romance and language.</p>