Kieron Smith, Boy
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I had cousins at sea. One was in the Cadets. I was wanting to join. My maw did not want me to but my da said I could if I wanted, it was a good life and ye saved yer money, except if ye were daft and done silly things. He said it to me. I would just have to grow up first. James Kelman’s triumph in Kieron Smith, boy is to bring us completely inside the head of a child and remind us what strange and beautiful things happen in there. Here is the story of a boyhood in a large industrial city during a time of great social change. Kieron grows from age five to early adolescence amid the general trauma of everyday life—the deat
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release date: 10 November 2008
ISBN-10 : 0151013489 | ISBN-13: 9780151013487
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Release date: 10 November 2008
ISBN-10 : 0151013489 | ISBN-13: 9780151013487