James Kelman was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989 with A Disaffection, which also won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. He went on to win the Booker Prize five years later with How Late it Was, How Late, before being shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 and 2011.
Dirt Road is brilliant . . . a deeply moving and exciting novel
*RODDY DOYLE*
Kelman in the American South, with a zydeco lilt, proves
irresistible - a thrilling return from one of our most essential
novelists
*KEVIN BARRY*
In writing as pure as this, language becomes the very bones and
meat of the characters. I am not transported by these sentences
into Murdo's world; I am Murdo
*ROSS RAISIN*
Strange and beautiful . . . Kelman gives us visceral vernacular,
Joycean stream of consciousness, wry humor, old resentments and
painful memories, all in counterpoint to the music on and off stage
. . . A celebration of what it is to be human
* * Spectator * *
Beautiful. Dirt Road is about coming of age, grief and the folk
music of the American deep south
* * Daily Telegraph * *
Draws you like a magnet
* * Herald Scotland * *
In Dirt Road James Kelman brings alive a human consciousness like
no other writer can
*ALAN WARNER*
Another masterpiece from one of our best writers
* * Guardian * *
A true original . . . A real artist
* * Guardian * *
A delight . . . The best thing [Kelman] has written
* * Scotsman * *
Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period
* * The Times * *
The greatest British novelist of our time
* * Sunday Herald * *
A writer of world stature, a 21st century Modern
* * Scotsman * *
The greatest living British novelist
* * Amit Chaudhuri * *
To call him a great Scottish writer would be accurate; to call him
simply a great writer would be more concise
* * Herald * *
One of the most influential writers of his generation
* * Guardian * *
A beautifully-coloured account of loss and love . . . Like a camera
on Murdo's shoulder, we see the world as the boy sees it, sensing
the miracle of his emergence as a confident young man
* * The Times * *
Beautiful and musical
* * The National * *
Poignant and beautiful
* * Independent * *
Quietly, subtly Kelman peels back the veil of daily life to reveal
the urgent struggle of a sixteen-year-old coming to terms with
death. This is a brilliant book, and like all great works of art,
it is universal-whether you're reading it in Scotland, Hampstead,
or Alabama
* * Times Literary Supplement * *
Dirt Road is a life-affirming novel, in which Kelman paints a
convincing and at times moving portrait of two likable characters
on the road to fulfillment and recovery
* * Observer * *
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