Greyhound for Breakfast

Greyhound for Breakfast

First edition (publ. Secker & Warburg, UK) (publ. Farrar Straus & Giroux, US)
Author	James Kelman
Language	English
Genre	Short stories
Publisher	Secker & Warburg
Publication date	1988
Publication place	England
Media type	Print
Awards	Cheltenham Prize for Literature

Greyhound for Breakfast is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer James Kelman first published in 1988. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The collection was awarded the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1987.

Contents

• "Old Francis"
• "A History"
• "The one with the dog"
• "of the spirit"
• "Renee"
• "Fifty Pence"
• "Even Money"
• "Home for a couple of days"
• "Manchester in July"
• "not too long from now tonight will be that last time"
• "Forgetting to mention Allende"
• "Samaritans"
• "Foreign language users"
• "Let that be a lesson"
• "Good intentions"
• "Cute Chick!"
• "The Small Family"
• "End of a Beginning"
• "Leader from a Quality Newspaper"
• "A Sunday evening"
• "Benson’s visitor"
• "Governor of the Situation"
• "The Band of Hope"
• "This man for fuck sake"
• "Half an hour before he died"
• "In with the doctor"
• "That Other"
• "More complaints from the American Correspondent"
• "Where but what"
• "The guy with the crutch"
• "undeciphered tremors"
• "The wee boy that got killed
• "Incident on a windswept beach"
• "A Rolling Machine"
• "The Red Cockatoos"
• "The Failure"
• "Dum vivimus, vivamus"
• "The wean and that"
• "Even in communal pitches"
• "An old story"
• "dear o dear"
• "A Hunter"
• "Sunday papers"
• "Getting Outside"
• "John Devine"
• "ONE SUCH PREPARATION"
• "Greyhound for Breakfast"

References

1. Jenkins, Nicholas (10 April 1988). "Scotland's Burning, Look Yonder : GREYHOUND FOR BREAKFAST by James Kelman". The LA Times . Retrieved 23 January 2014.
2. "BBC Writing Scotland Profile". BBC. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
3. Weinstein, Arnold (20 March 1988). "Wee Prisons". The New York Times . Retrieved 23 January 2014.