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You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free

James Kelman - Author
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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 448 pages | ISBN 9780141014111 | 05 May 2005 | Penguin
You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free

'A true original. This brave and provocative novel deserves to be widely read.'
Irvine Welsh, Guardian.

Jeremiah Brown is a man of extremes. So when he nips out for a quick drink on the eve of returning to his native Scotland after twelve years in America, anything could happen. Anything at all. Just one quick drink to help him sleep but there's something about this town and this bar that reminds him of his ex. Soon the memories are flooding in and as the night goes on and the decision to stop smoking looks increasingly ill-timed for a card-carrying alien of questionable politics, Jeremiah getting on that flight tomorrow starts to seem far from certain. Is there any such thing as a certainty? Not tonight. Tonight the only thing certain is that you have to be very careful in the land of the free.
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