If It Is Your Life

Collects Short Stories That Penetrate The Minds Of Characters In Such Everyday Situations As Convalescing In A Hospital, Sitting At A Bus Stop, And Being In A Living Room With A Vacuum Cleaner. Tricky Times Ahead Pal -- Our Times -- Talking About My Wife -- On Becoming A Reader -- As If From Nowhere -- Bangs & Full Moon -- A Sour Mystery -- Man To Man -- The Gate -- Leadership -- If It Is Your Life -- The Later Transgression -- Ingrained -- Death Is Not -- The Third Man, Or Else The Fourth -- Vacuum -- Pieces Of Shit Do Not Have The Power To Speak -- Justice For One -- I Am As Putty. James Kelman.