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by James Kelman · Picador · tapa blanda · 320 pages
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A Chancer es una novela del autor escocés James Kelman, publicada en 1987. La historia sigue a Tammas, un joven de Glasgow con una adicción al juego. La novela explora la vida de Tammas mientras navega por los bares, las tiendas de apuestas y los casinos de Glasgow, buscando una oportunidad para cambiar su suerte. A través de una serie de episodios, Kelman retrata la desesperación y la búsqueda de significado en la vida cotidiana de un joven en una sociedad que le ofrece pocas alternativas.

James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working-class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival."