Kelman, James, 1946- <br/><br/>
You have to be careful in the land of the free 
/ James Kelman. 
 - 1st U.S. ed. 
 - Orlando, FL  : Harcourt  , c2004. 
 - 410 p.  ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Jeremiah Brown, a Scottish immigrant in his early thirties, has lived in the United States for twelve years. He has moved as many times, from the east coast to the west coast and back again, all in the hope his luck would change. To add to his restlessness and indecision, he now has a nonrefundable ticket to Glasgow to visit his mother for the first time in seven years. The question is, will the visit help him get over the pain of separation from a woman he met and loved in New York and with whom he had a little girl, or will it make it worse? Kelman has once again created a memorable character-compulsive, obsessive, self-doubting, beer-loving, and utterly engaging-and a singular portrait of an immigrant's America 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780151010424 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scots---United States----Fiction<br/>Marginality, Social----Fiction<br/>Loss (Psychology)----Fiction<br/>Gamblers ----Fiction<br/>Drifters---Fiction<br/>Mothers and sons----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Glasgow (Scotland) ----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Psychological fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6061.E518  / Y68 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC KEL