''A Chancer'' is a novel by the Scottish writer

James Kelman James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) 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 ...

published in 1985 by Polygon Books. This novel is the first to be written by Kelman, but it was published after '' The Busconductor Hines'' (1984). In a 2016 interview, Kelman said of ''A Chancer'': In that novel, there are no adverbs. There's only concrete. There wouldn't be anything with a value on it, unless it was said in dialogue. Because I tried to create a value-free novel.' He smiles, but there is a hint of resignedness when he says, 'That never gets picked up.

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Novels by James Kelman Polygon Books books 1985 British novels {{1980s-novel-stub