You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free
Author | : James Kelman |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 0156031728 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780156031721 |
Rating | : 4/5 (721 Downloads) |
Download or read book You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free written by James Kelman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the superbly crafted and critically acclaimed You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free, James Kelman has created an unforgettable character and a darkly comic portrait of a post-9/11 America. Jeremiah Brown, a Scottish immigrant in his early thirties, has lived in the United States for twelve years. He has moved as many times, from the East Coast to the West Coast and back again, all in the hope his luck would change. To add to his restlessness and indecision, he now has a nonrefundable ticket to Glasgow--by way of Seattle, Canada, Iceland, and England--to visit his mother. On his last night in the States, Jeremiah finds himself in a town south of Rapid City, moving from bar to bar, attracting and repelling strangers, losing count of the beers he has drunk. All the while he is haunted by memories and by an acute sense of foreboding.