Greyhound for Breakfast is a collection of short stories by the Scottish writer James Kelman first published in 1988. The collection was awarded the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1987.
Contents "Old Francis" "A History" "The one with the dog" "of the spirit" "Renee" "Fifty Pence" "Even Money" "Home for a couple of days" "Manchester in July" "not too long from now tonight will be that last time" "Forgetting to mention Allende" "Samaritans" "Foreign language users" "Let that be a lesson" "Good intentions" "Cute Chick!" "The Small Family" "End of a Beginning" "Leader from a Quality Newspaper" "A Sunday evening" "Benson’s visitor" "Governor of the Situation" "The Band of Hope" "This man for fuck sake" "Half an hour before he died" "In with the doctor" "That Other" "More complaints from the American Correspondent" "Where but what" "The guy with the crutch" "undeciphered tremors" "The wee boy that got killed "Incident on a windswept beach" "A Rolling Machine" "The Red Cockatoos" "The Failure" "Dum vivimus, vivamus" "The wean and that" "Even in communal pitches" "An old story" "dear o dear" "A Hunter" "Sunday papers" "Getting Outside" "John Devine" "ONE SUCH PREPARATION" "Greyhound for Breakfast"
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