If it is your life is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer James Kelman published in 2010. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Writing in the Glasgow Herald, Rosemary Goring notes that "It is a tour de force from a writer who treats language as carefully as if it were gold, and ends up turning it into something even more precious". [5]
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