{"product_id":"all-we-have-is-the-story-9798887440057","title":"All We Have Is the Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNovelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom his first publication (a short story collection \u003ci\u003eAn Old Pub Near the Angel\u003c\/i\u003e on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (\u003ci\u003eGod's Teeth and other Phenomena\u003c\/i\u003e) and work with Noam Chomsky (\u003ci\u003eBetween Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime\u003c\/i\u003e—both published on a slightly larger American press), \u003ci\u003eAll We Have Is the Story\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the life and work—to date—of “Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.” (\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing\n deeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously political, \nphilosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates the \ncomplexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voice \nand grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity and \nempathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and ends\n with the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the things the establishment always does \nis isolate voices of dissent and make them specific—unique if possible. \nIt's easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there's him in prose \nand him in poetry. As soon as you say there's him, him, and her there, \nand that guy here and that woman over there, and there's all these other\n writers in Africa, and then you've got Ireland, the Caribean—suddenly \nthere's this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes something \ndangerous, something that the establishment won't want people to relate \nto and go Christ, you're doing the same as me. Suddenly there's a \nmovement going on. It's fine when it's all these disparate voices; you \ncan contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say ‘You're on \nyour own, you're a phenomenon.’ I'm not a phenomenon at all: I'm just a \npart of what's been happening in prose for a long, long while.” —James \nKelman from a 1993 interview\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Kelman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286839832827,"sku":"9798887440057","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9798887440057_42c8c251-63da-4480-abc6-2a21d339ab7d.jpg?v=1772491763","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/all-we-have-is-the-story-9798887440057","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}